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Director and Actor: Passions, How To Use The Beyond Stanislavski - Shifting and Sliding Collaborative Directing in Process and Intimacy Stanislavski System Oyston directs Chekhov Contemporary Theatre

An in depth exploration of the Peter Oyston reveals how he com- Using an abridged version of The works examine and challenge Working Forensically: complex and intimate relationship bines Stanislavski’s techniques in a Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, the social, temporal and gender between Actor and Director when systematic approach to provide a Oyston reveals how directors and constructs within which women A discussion between Richard working on a play-text. The core of full rehearsal process or a drama actors can apply the techniques of in particular live. They offer a Murphet (Director/Writer) and the process presented in the film course in microcosm. An invaluable Stanislavski and develop them to positive vision of the feminine Leisa Shelton (Director/Performer) involves working with physical and resource for anyone interested in suit contemporary theatre. psyche as creative, productive and about their years of collaboration (subsequent) emotional intensity the making of authentic theatre. resourceful. in directing, during which they have in the space, and crucially not produced 5 new theatre works. imposing any preconceived ideas onto the work.

The Making of a The TEAM Makes a Play ONE: Healing with Theatre How to Audition Char∙ac∙ter Monologue

This video draws on rehearsal and The inside story behind the making of It is a large scale performance Peter Oyston addresses a number A raw and candid dialogue about performance footage, reveals how the TEAM’s award-winning Edinburgh project centred around the of questions and demonstrates the life and craft of acting between Wilson created his unique one- and National Theatre hit, Mission opportunity of facilitating one-to- how to shape a speech, how to longtime colleagues and friends man performance of Hamlet and Drift. An exclusive view behind the one meetings between audience learn lines, how to prepare, how Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles captures the rich texture of Wilson’s scenes and inside the process and and performer and designed to to place images in space how to be Grodin, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell multi-dimensional theatrical style. the people. create a fulfilling and lasting quality flexible, daring and confident. and Harry Dean Stanton. of contact ACTING / DIRECTING

An Obsession with Supporting Actors The Art of Theatre, Film and Making War Horse Teachers on Acting Hamlet Television - An Introduction

John Bell has stamped the role of Supporting Actors will be an The basic elements of theatre, film Making War Horse is the story of how Leading Australian teachers Hayes Hamlet as his own, having played it invaluable tool for aspiring actors and television performance - are Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning Gordon, Dean Carey and Murree numerous times over 35 years. Now and a fascinating behind-the explored in this educational video. and captivating children’s novel, Hutchinson discuss their approach he is handing on the baton to talented -scenes view for those interested This program visually develops and War Horse, became one of the most to the teaching of acting, with em- young actor Leon Ford (Changi) who in the thinking of theatre, television explains the concepts of art on stage popular and acclaimed productions phasis on specific improvisational moulds it into something fresh and and film industry pros. Directed by and on the screen, the basic concepts in the National Theatre’s history. techniques and the building of a exciting as Bell directs. Australia only. Suzannah Warlick. of dramatic conventions and how all character step-by-step. this impacts the audience.

Actors on Acting Actors on Acting The Shakespeare Muse of Fire Speaking for Myself (Australian) Sessions

Murray Hamilton, James Earl Jones, Jack Australia’s leading actors critically de- With founders of The Royal Actors and directors about This documentary film captures the Klugman and Rip Torn give opinions on construct their process, with particular Shakespeare Company and Kevin Shakespeare, a documentary with core of New York City on a human the lack of good roles, the incursions emphasis on TV and film: John Bell, Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Cynthia Nixon Ian McKellen, James Earl Jones, Judi scale, focusing on the work of eight of television, Hollywood vs. Broadway, Lorraine Bayly, Noni Hazelhurst, Angela and David Hyde Pierce, in intimate Dench, and Tom Hiddleston, their widely varied performing artists: A rehearsal and experimentation, Punch McGregor. With absorbing workshop settings with John Barton exciting road trip takes them to dancer, a concert pianist, an actress,a keeping your day job, acting as a candour they discuss their techniques and Sir Peter Hall. Focusing on the Denmark with Jude Law, Hollywood singing poet... etc. sophisticated form of showing off, for making a character come alive language as the way into Shakespeare’s with Baz Luhrman, a prison in and why these stars went into acting and evoking authentic and believable magical world, these workshops bring Berlin and Shakespeare’s home in themselves. emotional responses on stage. Shakespeare’s characters to life on Stratford-upon-Avon. stage. ACTING / DEVISING

The two journeys of Jacques Lecoq 97’ | LO-Lecoq t | DVD & Streaming Creative work is constantly stimulated, largely through improvisation, which is also the first approach to play writing. The school’s sights are set on ar t theatre, but theatre education is broader than the theatre itself. It is not just a matter of training actors, but of educating theatre artists of all kinds: authors, directors, scenographers as well as actors. Part 1: The first journey: body, movement Part 2: The second journey: play, creation.

A fascinating homage to Jacques Lecoq, who died in January 1999 and whose ideas and teachings made him one of the most influential theatre figures of recent times.

Jean-Noel Roy’s two forty-five minute documentary films show Lecoq at work with students at his Paris theatre school, and include interviews with many, now well-known, former pupils. Jacques Lecoq performed his brilliant lecture- demonstration Tout Bouge at the Institut Français as part of the 1982 Mime Festival. Director: Jean Noel Roy.

Devising Performance Devising Celebration: Walyalup Dreaming In Transit - 186’ | KD-Crossing | DVD & Streaming Engineers of the Imagination Hidden Directions

Devising 1 - Documentary Devising 2 - Performances 23’ | CSU-Dev |DVD & Streaming 30’ | RS-Wal | DVD & Streaming 45’ | OD-Tran | DVD & Streaming This documentary follows the Three performances from three Forced Entertainment visits This film explores how a traditional Directors explain their processes and journey of a group of young people, different “CROSSING” projects Australia. indigenous story is translated from principles: women directors who are from all corners of the globe, who one of which is documented on an oral story into a performance seeking a new way of working, their were selected to work together Part 1. The performances are the The film is a useful introduction to involving dance, puppetry, music own way of working, alternatives for 3 weeks before the IDEA 2007 outcomes of 3 weeks intensive the theatre of image, large scale and voice. This can be used as a for the developing generation of Congress began. devising and rehearsing. It is a truly dramatic construction techniques, tool to bring together ideas and directors. intercultural experience about and processional theatre, outdoor the right people to create original for young people in the world. performance and mask, ritual and performance. spectacle. CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE

Nigel Kellaway in Sleepers The Rameau Project Nigel Kellaway “Brief Synopsys... KaBooM: Stories from wake! wachet auf! (2 parts) Distant Frontlines

A man is at recollection, harboring A sprawling, multi-layered music The set of excerpts from ten major ... a beautiful naked woman ‘of a KaBooM is a physical performance a nagging desire to connect with theatre work, reveling in the grandeur, works by Nigel Kellaway (1994 - certain age’ brutally stabs a young event – its subject is War. It is based the present. Adrift from cultural delicacy, complexity and underlying 2004) has recently been assembled, man to death”. Rich elements of on real stories of soldiers who have and historical specifi-cities where wit of the French Baroque, it employs edited by Kellaway and his long-time music, physical space, visual arts, fought on the frontline. Men who nostalgia for Glenn Gould and Dean seductive improvisations on a associate, video artist Peter Oldham. text and movement. It contemplates fled to Australia to escape conflict Martin washes up alongside political complex layering of sophisticated violence, without relying on and build new lives. Each of the 7 anxiety and an unreliable memory. deceits. sensational anecdote. tales serves as a basis for 7 leading independent theatre directors to create a theatrical response. Read more on our website > Jenny Kemp: Jenny Kemp: The Black Blowback K Mac-Beth 7 Still Angela Sequin Dress, Remember

A multi-sided portrait of a contem- Part 1. Black Sequin Dress Using the body and video as double K fuses hard-core physical action, A play about self-love and self-loathing. porary Australian woman at three An investigation into the psyche agents, not yet it’s difficult inves- digital technology, sonic achitec- Mac-Beth 7 is a contemporary ages. Using film shot in the out-back, and its ability to function creatively. tigates the dark and violent world tures and new texts to portray the performance for theatre with a cast of choreography, an original score Part 2. Remember of an Australia subject to a new dark, humorous and violent world actors, opera singers, a contemporary and a cast of performers, It paints a A young woman has been raped and imperial master. BLOWBACK tracks of democracy in the Information Age. dancer and an eight-year-old girl. picture of a woman in transition on a believes she has killed her assailant... the story of cultural activists who It is a performance recording of the surreal journey. Part 3. Interview with Jenny Kemp hack into New Australia’s joint 2002 Melbourne season. communications facility. The Sydney Front CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE

Soundings: Sound Cage: Staging the Audience: The Sydney Front: The Sydney Front: Performance Texts, 1987 Katalin Ladik The Sydney Front Don Juan First and Last Warning

Video documentation of entire A documentary with and about an The Sydney Front was an Australian In Don Juan, The Sydney Front ‘The audience is divided. Those who program of a performance poets’ original European avantgarde artist, performance group formed in 1986 created what Le Soir (Brussels) can afford it are escorted to their event. The event was staged at The Katalin Ladik, a Hungarian poet, particularly known for the way they described as a ‘chiaroscuro of taboo private viewing area, to be served Performance Space in Redfern, performance artist and actress. She used the audience as part of their desires’ and the Rheinische Post champagne and smoked salmon Sydney, Australia. writes poems, creates sound poems productions. This film presents a (Dusseldorf) ‘a wild cacophonous throughout the show. The rest risk and visual poems, performance art, kaleidoscope of images and archive yearning’. the edges of the performance space, writes and performs experimental footage from all seven of The clad only in black lingerie. music and audio plays. Sydney Front’s major works. art and experimental theatre in their work. The Sydney Front: John The Sydney Front: The Sydney Front: The Sydney Front: The The Sydney Front: Waltz Laws/Sade: a confession Passion Photocopies of God Pornography of Performance

In John Laws/Sade the world is Passion takes up the theme of The film presents images of a A frenzied meditation on theatrical Built from a series of entrances and colder, the genitals sit tight. We are SACRIFICE that plays through all the theatre struggling to move beyond obsession, a festive overture of monologues chopped up from the in densely occupied territory. The work of The Sydney Front, leading its the exchange of desires, beyond histrionic suffering and flapping Greek canon, this show began as telephone rings, the radio is always audience into a re-enactment of the even the carnal itself. The perfor- genitalia.’ - Poster for The Pornography a work about women and war but on. Stations of the Cross. mers attempt to break the endless of Performance, 1988 turned into a work about the diva cycle of impersonation and to submit performing the monologues. themselves to the supreme gaze. WORKSHOPS PHYSICAL / VISUAL THEATRE

Physical Theatre 2: A Physical Theatre: Expressive Gestures Self Discovery in a In practice: Frank Suzuki workshop in Biomechanics Butoh and Beyond Silver Room Actor Knowhow

A documentary of a workshop. A documentary of a workshop by Alternatives to realism Gestures The Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow is It’s a rather humorous explanation The aim of the workshop was to Cheryl Heazlewood in Perth in carry messages, very often an occidental variant of the original of the Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow introduce the basic principles and 1996. Cheryl presents powerful and unintentionally. Expressive gestures Suzuki Actor Training Method, with extra done in full HD, using Ozfrank’s the vocabulary of Biomechanics to inspiring training exercises which reflect the person’s inner emotional exercises that add Western zing to the schematic almanac as a backdrop. the participating actors, teachers and are drawn from her eclectic training or mental state. The focus of the Asian depth, proving Suzuki’s universal It has 3 tracks, an explanation students in theatre arts. in occidental and oriental movement film is on GESTURES and their application. of the exercises, an advertorial and theatre. “imaginative” application in non- and an exposition of the various realistic performance. inspirations.

Neutral Mask Ryszard Cieslak: Corporal Mime Training at Grotowski’s Physical Training at (4 parts) The Body Speaks “Laboratorium” in Wrozlaw Odin Teatret in 1972

A Foundation for the Theatrical The leading actor in Jerzy Grotowski’s Yves Lebreton, who features in this The evolution of Jerzy Grotowski’s Recommended for universities, libraries Experience. This film will take you “Polish Laboratory Theater”, film, was Etienne Decroux’s student training is shown in a pedagogical and professionals. Odin Teatret’s through the learning process, as it was demonstrates body exercises used for four years in Paris. He shows situation in which Ryszard Cieslak, physical training with commentary by actually experienced by the students by the avant garde company. Cieslak in two parts the training program the main actor of the Theatre Labo- Eugenio Barba, showing its evolution participating in a professional also discusses his approach with of the famous French Mime. At the ratorium works with two students. from collectively learned skills to the program in London. theater critic Margaret Croyden. end of each part of the film he gives Recommended for universities, libraries actor’s individualization of exercises. examples. and professionals. WORKSHOPS PHYSICAL / VISUAL THEATRE

Butoh East & West: The 100 Pathways to A Playwright’s The Expressionist Physical Acting: Making of Gaia Creativity Manuscript Theatre of OzFrank Characters

196’| DVC-100 | DVD & Streaming 196’| DVC-100 | DVD & Streaming 45’| JD-Play | DVD & Streaming 109’| OF-Theatre | DVD & Streaming KD-Acting | e-book This film samples 5 minutes excerpts All of the exercises are intended All of the exercises are intended Jenny de Reuck’s research and Animal imitation. This book offers an from Ozfranks 20 year repertoire. to connect more deeply to the to connect more deeply to the practice include the diverse approach, which is beyond the easy 16 plays directed by Jacqui Carroll individual’s creativity, to develop individual’s creativity, to develop fields of Theatre in Education and way of imitating a monkey, a bird or a from 1993 to the present , plus an the ability to handle obstacles, the ability to handle obstacles, Shakespearean adaptations but snake. The revelation of a character example of its training system, the create regularly and passionately create regularly and passionately her primary objective is to offer in its physical and psychological Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow. during distractions, reduce during distractions, reduce her students and their audiences a complexity requires in-depth analysis, negative thinking and feelings, and negative thinking and feelings, and provocative theatrical experience. comprehension of non-verbal cues stay focused on the task at hand. stay focused on the task at hand. and most of all, imagination. Martial Arts for Actor Training Kendo: Fencing: The art, science, The Practice of Arms Actor Training and Kalarippayatt, The Path of the Sword and the passion Kalarippayatt, Martial Art Martial Arts of India of India

An examination of Kendo, the This 6-part documentary introduces An educational video dedicated Supporting Actors will be an Phillip Zarrilli explores a wide range “senior” Japanese martial art, a you to the intensely competitive to instructing the student or invaluable tool for aspiring actors of basic physical movements. Part form of stylized sword fighting using actions of the sports fencer and professional actor, stunt man, and a fascinating behind-the I demonstrates the basic poses, bamboo staves. This documentary, the elegant traditional moves of the historical recreationist or sword -scenes view for those interested steps, jumps and kicks. Part II shot on location in Japan, includes classical duelist. Through exiting aficionado in the use of the blade. in the thinking of theatre, television shows how various weapons are explanations of kendo formalities, close-ups, the fast moving action It teaches the basic footwork, and film industry pros. Directed by incorporated into the advanced its appeal at all levels of society, of duelling weapons are captured defensive and offensive techniques Suzannah Warlick. stages of physical training. Slides and comparisons with other martial with a clarity rarely seen on TV or for both cutting and thrusting and a short film clip illustrate this arts. in movies. weapons. section. VOICE & BODY

Voice and the Core / Dr Faustus (2 parts) IAM NOCTE The Third Space The Active Centre White Dark (2 parts)

The work is an integration of An Exploration of Voice, Sound This adaptation is a theatrical The film is a compilation of exercises The exercises in The Active Centre voice and body; the connection and Body. The production of ‘Dr experience that combines vocal that consolidate body, voice and encourages the actor to explore of thought, feeling, breath, voice Faustus’ explores abstract imagery sounds, physical theatre, vocal and imagination which have grown and their unique response to dramatic and the core muscle groups. It through voice and body. It also physical expression of abstract developed since the Voice Theatre contradiction by demonstrating a demonstrates to the performer that includes training session focusing imagery with preverbal expressions, Lab inception in 2006. They have series of Pilates-based exercises tension and freedom are equally on vocal actions, energies and the holistic utterances, abstract use of been refined through thorough with vocal integration. Lewis’ as important and are essential for image. English and Latin. extensive research, practice and approach is to integrate voice and performance. exploration. body in diverse ways.

PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: Odin Teatret - Disappeariences Living is a Horizontal Fall Silent Moves Crossing Body Shadow Vocal Training

Disappeariences was the first work An Adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s Moves was an assemblage of ideas The work gathered around It focuses on Odin Teatret’s use in a trilogy that explored elements Opium: A Diary of a Cure. Living and performances opened up investigations of internal and external of text as vocal action. It includes of human experience and the Is A Horizontal Fall was designed during two weeks of collaborative corporeal modalities and explored work with various body resonators, ways in which they are translated and produced as part of the workshopping that gathered their reverberations on and within exercises which engage the voice as or communicated through acts of International Theatre Festival in around speculations about internal disciplines of “performance”. an extension of the body, and vocal performance, particularly focussing Casablanca, at Theatre De Sidi and external corporeal modalities. improvisations based on a stream on those elements of experience. Belyout and the Institut Francais, of personal associations. September, 1995. THEATRE MAKERS

Augusto Boal & Theatre of The Seven Faces of The Stanislavski Century the Oppressed in Rio De Robert Lepage Janeiro 170’ | SYS-Stanislav| DVD & Streaming

3 DVD This definitive film document tells Stanislavski’s story using unique personal archives never before seen outside Russia. The Stanislavski Century, is more than a gripping story... it is the turbulent history of Russia itself.

53’ | RM-Boal | DVD & Streaming 52’ | MP-Lepage | DVD & Streaming

It is a record of the work of a theatre This documentary shows the maestro undertaking a daring brilliant artist at work. In a revealing and difficult experiment in overtly interview, Lepage discusses how melding the concerns of theatre, he works with actors and other therapy and politics. An account of members of his troupe. In addition, a theatre company that is elected actors rehearsing one of Lepage’s into public office. creations, The Seven Streams of the River Ota, share their impressions of how their own work has evolved Foreman Planet: with the playwright. Richard Foreman

75’ | KD-For | DVD & Streaming

Video interview with 9 time “OBIE” winner Richard Foreman, writer, director, designer, choreographer and founder of Ontological Hysterical Theatre, in New York City. A visionary experimental theatre artist of four decades, Foreman talks about his creative processes, about psychic freedom, about reality, realism and realistic theatre, And about collisions of objects and words with primary impulse. Foreman also shares his private feelings and concerns about living and working as an artist in New York City today. The video interview is broken up by the fascinating images of Photographer Paula Court offering a visual feast and a “beyond-intellectual understanding” of Foreman’s work. THEATRE MAKERS

Andre Serban: Dario Fo and Franca Interview with Interview with Jean-Paul Sartre and Experimental Theater Rame: A Nobel For Two Eugene Ionesco Henry Miller Simone de Beauvoir

27’ | CAT-Serbex | DVD & Streaming 55’ | MGC-Dario | DVD & Streaming 30’ | SRC-Ion | DVD 60’ | SRC-Miller | DVD 60’ | SRC-Jean | DVD A profile of the experimental theatre The video features performance Ionesco speaks about his childhood, In this brilliant interview, Henry Miller Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and director, including conversation excerpts from classic Dario Fo his studies, the type of theatre he (1891-1980) describes the motivation Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), two of with critic Margaret Croyden and plays such as Mistero Buffo and enjoyed in his youth, his original and inspiration that guided his the most influential and controversial reflections by director and theatre Accidental Death of an Anarchist, personality, and his constant need writings. He talks about his self- thinkers of our time, are presented in producer Joseph Papp and Ellen plus interviews with Fo and Rame, for solitude.He also discusses the imposed exile to Europe and Paris, this unique documentary originally Stewart, owner of Café La Mama in and numerous theatrical colleagues absurdity of our world and our his return to the U.S., censorship, broadcast in 1967 and photographed New York City. With Excerpts from and associates. inability to communicate. His plays fame and the importance of reading. by Michel Brault, one of Canada’s Serban’s workshop production of draw on parody and symbolism to most distinguished documentary The Master and the Margarita. denounce the absurdity of life and cameramen and filmmakers. social relationships. Harold Pinter: Early Work Jerzy Grotowski Jerzy Grotowski David Mamet: The Peter Brook 1973 Interview Playwright as Director

Performance of excerpts from two The director of the Polish Lab The man of 1969, neatly dressed in Playwright David Mamet rehearses An interview with the great director very early works: The Room and A Theatre talks with theatre critic jacket and tie and with a conventional Lindsay Crouse and Michael Higgins just after he returned from Africa Slight Ache, filmed in 1965 when Margaret Croyden (translated haircut, resembled, at the time of in scenes from two of his plays, Dark with his Centre of Research, his group they played at the Writers Stage by Jacques Chwat, theatre this interview in 1973, something Pony and Reunion. Discussion of the of young actors based in Paris. Brook in New York City. This program director). Grotowski discusses the of a “hippie.” Yet he speaks here art of directing and the Stanislavsky explains his views on theatre, cross- includes a brief interview with relationship between director and with the same intensity, true to his method. cultural performances, improvisation, director Word Baker. actor, a playwright’s function and personal search. Illustrated with Shakespeare and working with young the idea of his “poor” theatre that photographs by Max Waldman. actors. renounces everything not essential Interviewer Margaret Croyden. to the work. THEATRE MAKERS

American Theatre Conversations: Edward Albee’s ‘The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Examined’ Actors Studio 28’ | CAT-Ame| DVD & Streaming 27’ | CAT-Ed| DVD & Streaming Members of The Actors Studio and The Production Board of the Actors A vibrant discussion of Edwarde Albee’s new (1963) play “ The Ballad of the Sad Studio Theater: Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Frank Corsaro, Michael Wager, Cafe” shortly after it opened in New York City. In closely-reasoned dispute Rip Torn, and Fred Stewart discuss their training at The Actors Studio and are the play’s director, Alan Schneider; and respected theater professionals goals for The Actors Studio Theater. Harold Clurman and Robert Brustein.

Athol Fugard: ‘Blood Knot’ 28’ | CAT-Ath | DVD & Streaming German Theatre of Protest: 1918-1938 27’ | CAT-German | DVD & Streaming A rare filmed recording of excerpts from the original New York production of Athol Fugard’s first important play. With the original cast of that production: Between the two world wars, often considered part of the European James Earl Jones and J.D. Cannon. South African playwright, director and “Expressionist” movement, was, in its most inventive aspects, a theater of actor Fugard (b. 1932) has been writing for several decades about the lives of opposition. The plays are “Gas” by George Kaiser, “Hoopla! Such is Life!” by blacks and poor whites in South Africa. Ernst Toller, and “The Private Life of the Master Race” by Bertolt Brecht. British Theatre in the United States The Group Theater Discussion with Harold 28’ | CAT-Bri| DVD & Streaming Clurman, Bobby Lewis, Lee Strasberg Discussion of theater, acting, British versus American audiences, and schools 28’ | CAT-Grou| DVD & Streaming of acting with Alexander Cohen, producer of the David Storey play Home Three distinguished theater producer-directors recapture the heady days of and its two stars, the renowned British actors Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph the famous Group Theater and discuss its origins, successes, failures, and Richardson. eventual decline.

The Circle in the Square: The First 25 Years 28’ | CAT-Gog| DVD & Streaming 85’ | CAT-Cir| DVD & Streaming Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ An adaptation of the off-Broadway production of Gogol’s work, “Diary of a In honest, revealing and often humorous reminiscences Dustin Hoffman, Madman”, performed by William Hickey, about a clerk’s disintegration into Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Paul Rudd and Vanessa madness. Redgrave discuss acting, ambition, and their life with The Circle in the Square. Conversation with Playwrights: Arthur Miller & Israel Horovitz 26’ | CAT-ConPlay| DVD & Streaming Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theater 55’ | CAT-Jos | DVD & Streaming Conversation between Arthur Miller and then (1970) quite young successful writer Israel Horovitz about theater, the writer, playwriting and politics, The group in “Nightwalk”, its last performance piece before disbanding. The and the responsibility of the artist to society. Pulitzer Prize-winning author play is a collective theater work, the creation of writers Jean-Claude van Miller’s plays included “The Crucible”, “All My Sons”, “Death of a Salesman”, Itallie, Sam Shepard, Megan Terry, and Open Theater director Joseph Chaikin, etc. as well as the actors. Dudley Moore & Peter Cook Improvise Joseph Papp and the Public Theatre: American Play- 28’ | CAT-Dud | DVD & Streaming wrights 54’ | CAT-Pap | DVD & Streaming British film and stage stars Dudley Moore and Peter Cook spend half an hour Theater writer-critic Margaret Croyden interviews Papp and the playwrights bantering and improvising, ostensibly in an interview by arts critic Leonard whose works are seen. The plays highlighted are David Freeman’s “Jessie Harris in connection with their appearance in New York City to present their and the Bandit Queen”, John Guare’s “Rich and Famous”, and Myrna Lamb’s hilarious revue “Good Evening”. “Apple Pie”. THEATRE MAKERS

Lee Strasberg Interview 28’ | CAT-Lee | DVD & Streaming The Open Theater: Andre Gregory Interview Interview with performance segments from class of The Actors Studio at the 29’ | CAT-Open | DVD & Streaming Lee Strasberg Acting Institute. He teaches a class at Actors Studio, a lesson Demonstration of acting exercises, and performance by members of the on walking, and analyzes two students rehearsing a scene from Chekhov’s Open Theater of an excerpt from their new (1975) production, “Fable.” “Uncle Vanya.” Interview with director Andre Gregory about preparatory training at his Manhattan Project theater group. Themes: Sound and gesture, silence and The Living Theater Performance 28’ | CAT-Liv | DVD & Streaming movement are explored. Conversation with Judith Malina, Julian Beck. The Living Theater Company Bertolt Brecht: Practice performs two segments from their “Mysteries and Smaller Pieces”: “The Brig The Open Theatre: Terminal - Performance Dollar” and “The Plague.” The excerpts are introduced by founder-directors 28’ | CAT-Ope | DVD & Streaming Pieces Julian Beck and Judith Malina. Performance of experimental theater pieces by the Open Theater Ensemble: 28’ | CAT-Ber DVD & Streaming Shami Chaikin, Tina Shepard, Jo-Ann Schmidman, Paul Zimet, Raymond This is a videotaped recording of a 25’ | CAT-Lot| DVD & Streaming Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill Barry, Henry Smith. This group that prides itself on developing theater as a performance, in English translation, Theater songs by Kurt Weill, texts by Bertolt Brecht, performed mostly in collaborative effort. The pieces are portions of the ensemble’s current off- of two of Bertolt Brecht’s largely the original German by Weill’s widow, the celebrated actress/singer Lotte Broadway production “Terminal”. unknown and seldom performed Lenya. Selections, from “Mahoganny”, “The Threepenny Opera”, also “Moon works, Übungstücke für Schauspieler of Alabama”, “Surabaya Johnny”, “Bilbao Lied”, “Pirate Jenny” (in English), and Two Russian Stories of the 19th Century, Dramatized and Practice Pieces for Actors. “Lied des Ertrunkenen Maedchen”. 40’ | CAT-2Rus| DVD & Streaming Brecht: A Man’s A Man Nikolai Gogol’s “A Night with Chichikov” is an excerpt from his novel “Dead 28’ | CAT-Burl | DVD & Streaming 27’ | CAT-Bre| DVD & Streaming A Master of Burlesque Souls”, first published in 1842. Cast: Myron McCormick, Dorothy Greener, Many famous stage performers started in burlesque, including W.C.Fields, Gerald Hiken, Edith King, Salem Ludwig, Alice Pearce, Bernard West. Anton Introduces scenes from Bertolt Fannie Brice, Mae West, Bert Lahr and Al Jolson. In this program one of the Chekhov’s “Enemies” was published in 1887. Cast: Michael Strong and Brecht’s play-with-songs “Mann last masters of burlesque, Steve Mills, recreates a few of the famous set Richard Waring. Ist Mann”. The performance seen pieces that audiences knew and loved. here is the then (1962) current off- A Sampling of French Theater Broadway production, at a time when Brecht’s popularity in America 27’ | CAT-Sam| DVD & Streaming Masters of the French Stage: Jean-Louis was high after the revival of his “The Barrault and Madeleine Renaud Performance illustrated discussion of 20th century French theater and Threepenny Opera.” 28’ | CAT-Mas | DVD & Streaming its importance, with some comparisons to American theater. Scenes from Anouilh’s “Ardel” and Giraudoux’s “The Enchanted” - at the time (1958) Songs of Bertolt Brecht: They present the bittersweet jealousy scene from Moliere’s “Le Misanthrope” playing in New York City. and recitations from other works of French drama and poetry, among them Gisela May Sings Brecht Jacques Prevert’s “Bird”, Paul Valois’ “Liberté”, and a charming fable about 27’ | CAT-Son| DVD & Streaming animal intelligence. Barrault performs his famous circus horse riding William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying”: Two Versions pantomine. 55’ | CAT-Will | DVD & Streaming From “Threepenny Opera”: “Mack the Knife”, and “Pirate Jenny”. From An excerpt from the celebrated novel is here interpreted in two different “Happy End” the song “Surabaya Max Frish 27’ | CAT-Max | DVD & Streaming ways. Dramatization (1956). A sampling of the book’s fifteen narrators, in Johnny.” From “Mother Courage”: monologues and dramatic scenes. Dance/Drama (1965). Excerpts of a dance Excerpts from the 1964 off-Broadway production of Max Frisch’s plays “Lied des Solomons.” From interpretation by choreographer/dancer/actress Valerie Bettis. “Andorra” and “I’m Not Stiller”, with an interview with the celebrated Swiss “Schweyk in the Second World War”: novelist and playwright. His work has been described as “Kafkaesque”, “Das Moldau Lied.” From “The Rise coming at the terror of alienation obliquely. “Spare us the necessity,” says a and Fall of Mahagonny”: “Alabama jailer in one of the plays, “of condemning you to be yourself.” Song”. And more... MUSICAL THEATRE

Matilda and Me

60’ | AB-Matilda| DVD & Streaming

With exclusive access to the Australian rehearsals of his global theatre hit, MATILDA and ME charts the relationship between Tim Minchin and the musical he has become famous for. With exclusive access to the Australian rehearsals of his global theatre hit, Matilda & Me charts the relationship between Tim Minchin and the musical he has become famous for. From London and Los Angeles to the opening night in Sydney, this is the story of the irreverent comedian whose unlikely partnership with the esteemed Royal Shakespeare Company proved the opportunity of a lifetime.

The Show Must Go On Making Muriel

57’ | AB-Matilda| DVD & Streaming 60’ | AB-Muriel | DVD & Streaming

Shining a spotlight on mental wellbeing in the entertainment Making Muriel takes us behind the scenes as industry. Aussie film classic ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ is turned into a world-first stage musical. But with the Filmed over three years, The Show Must Go On is an important starring role based on director P.J. Hogan’s and moving exploration of the mental health of the 42,000 people real sister, and immortalized by Toni Colette, working in the Australian entertainment industry. While ‘show the question is: who is good enough to be business’ is often seen as glamorous, fun, exciting, and well paid, Australia’s 21st century Muriel? Making Muriel recent and alarming world-first research from Entertainment examines the enduring popularity of Muriel’s Assist and Victoria University paints a darker picture for Wedding, the origins of the story and characters entertainment workers. Anxiety symptoms are 10 times higher, and how – 23 years after becoming a surprise sleep disorders are 7 times higher and symptoms of depression box office hit – the uniquely Australian female are 5 times higher than the national average. Suicide attempts in protagonist Muriel Heslop will be reinterpreted the industry are double the national average. for the stage. PUPPETRY

Puppetry and Spectacle: The Lovers’ Exile Behind The Scenes with Contemporary Performance Work by Jessica Wilson Julie Taymor: Setting a Scene

91’ | JW-Pup | DVD & Streaming

PART 1 features excerpts of seven Sellected Works by Jessica Wilson, including: Stormy Night, Frankenstein, Dream Masons, Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear, The Western Ring Cycle, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Under the Big Sky.

PART 2 is a full performance of Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear. This theatre work has captivated audiences with its intriguing story, beautiful integration of art-forms, quirky aesthetic, and engaging performance style. Through a distinctive combination of puppetry, stop motion animation, original music and physical performance, this production playfully explores the ethical 90’ | MG-Lov | DVD & Streaming 30’ | BS-Tay | DVD & Streaming dilemmas faced by society, as new developments are made in health and From Japan to contemporary cinema Taymor, one of theatre’s most fertility. A contemporary moral tale, it draws on the traditional structure audiences, merging the artistry and inventive directors, transforms words of fables to raise questions about the remarkable futures and modern day grace of the legendary Bunraku on a page into verbal and visual miracles promised by science. Puppet Theatre with the power of the magic using puppets, masks, music screen through the collective talent and actors. Children learn about of many international contributors. the process of creation that shapes Performed entirely by the Bunraku theatrical productions and practice Ensemble of Osaka, widely considered creating their own imagery and the most sophisticated puppet characters through in-class activities. theatre in the world. Strings of Peace: Bunraku - Classical Brother Bread, Sister Puppetry: Puppets in the French The World of Puppets Japanese puppet art Puppet - Street theatre Worlds of Imagination Style and political satire

By Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop, Includes performances from two This documentary profile focuses on This documentary surveys the The celebrated French puppeteers featuring puppets and puppeteers traditional Bunraku dramas and filmed Bread and Puppet Theatre annual revolutionary new developments in Compagnie Philippe Genty demon- from Sweden, Denmark, Thailand, scenes showing how the puppets are Domestic Resurrection Circus. American puppet theater, profiling strate their artistry with several England, Pakistan, Italy, Belgium, made and articulated. They’re famous for street theater many of puppetry’s most imaginative different kinds of figures, ranging Korea, Poland, France, Switzerland and political satire utilizing giant contemporary artists, including Basil from the human to the dreamlike. and India, the video offers a “cultural “papier-mâché” puppets, masks and Twist, E Ralph Lee, Michael Curry, feast”. 12 foot high stilt walkers. Cheryl Henson... etc. THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT

The Mutants Another Short Hour The Letter Mime’s Great and Small Stories Established in 1975 by its present artistic directors, Claire Heggen and Yves Marc, the Theatre du Mouvement has been seen in sixty countries.

Expert and entertaining, 37’ | TDM-Mutant | DVD & Streaming 65’ | TDM-Another | DVD & Streaming 46’ | TDM-Letter | DVD & Streaming 179’ | TDM-Mime | DVD & Streaming their work has been The first professional collaboration Where acrobatics meets the Two actors continuously onstage. Part 1: Should We Take Mimes at a major influence in between Claire Heggen and Yves musicality of movement, humanity A man carries a woman. A law of Their Word? Part 2: Under The Marc. Since its creation, it has meets tragedy and the game of physics which becomes a dramatic White Mask the development of obtained the Edinburgh Fringe acting meets the enunciation of game: she must not leave the sun. Festival’s First Award and toured musical texts. Three men, barefoot, This is a story of love in a time of contemporary mime and Africa, America, Asia and Europe. in shirts and ties approach the war. visual theatre. edges of an unknown space in three wooden boxes...

The Seat, OR A Chronicle The Lost Song of Little Theatre du Mouvement The Theatre du Embodied Theatre of Chronic Fear Nothings Children’s Collection Mouvement in Africa

This piece was born out of research A spectacle which unfolds like Includes: Catherine and the Black Masks and White Masks, Part 1: If the Mona Lisa Had Legs: A into themes of fear. Exploring the turning of pages, constructed Wardrobe, A Funny Home, Krops 8 mins, 1986. Tezirzek, 18 mins, Show-Conference, Part 2: The Path the physicality of this emotion, as a succession of fleeting and the Magiciel, Little Cepou, Bugs. 1990. is Made by Walking, Part 3: I Think the actors created fascinating windows looking onto the usually Therefore It Shows characters. They attempt to retain unexamined occurrences of daily their seat, a place of comfort and life. A show that combines the security, their symbolic property, in precision of anthropology with a chorus that is moving, tragic and the imperfectness of subjective funny. observation. ODIN TEATRET

Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: Dona Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: Ascent to the Sea Whispering Winds Musica’s Butterflies Theatre Meets Ritual Dressed in White

90’ | OD-Whis | DVD & Streaming 36’ | OD-Ascent | DVD & Streaming 58’ | OD-Dona | DVD & Streaming 25’ | OD-The | DVD & Streaming 120’ | OF-Silver | DVD & Streaming A film version of Odin Teatret ‘s “ Spaces in the town, which normally It is the story of a character evaded This film shows barters in Kuripe, a A strolling player arrives in a small Whispering Winds”, directed by went unnoticed, were transformed from a performance - Kaosmos - Venezuelan negro village, and with village in southern Italy. She is Eugenio Barba. A performance- i n t o a s t a g e . T h e fi l m f o l l o w s t h e O d i n that tells the story of her origins the Yanomami, an Indian tribe of masked. She always carries her demonstration about the differ- Teatret’s street theatre production and narrates her adventures with the Upper Orinoco in Amazonia. It drum with her... The public solitude ence between theatre and dance. “Anabasis” in Peru - which typifies arguments of theatre entomology, includes Yanomami dances and the of the actor’s journey is presented the Odin’s unique use of the urban with theories of modern physics shaman’s enactment of his tribal lyrically and realistically in this environment as a theatrical space. and with poems and tales. legend about the tortoise which fictional film, whose title is taken killed the jaguar. from an Italian folk song.

Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: In The Odin Teatret: Kaosmos Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: On the Two The Echo of Silence Beginning Was The Idea The Million Banks of the River

A performance which describes the T h e fi lm IN T HE B EG INNIN G WA S T HE A village in the heart of Europe; Marco Polo was the firs t European to The film, which shows how Odin vicissitudes of the voice of an actor IDEA is based on the performance doors like walls and walls like doors. explore the Far East. He told about Teatret managed to play their and the stratagems she invents to by Odin Teatret: “The Gospel Every Spring the villagers perform everything he had seen. His listeners performances and come into contact “interpret” a text. The voice of the According to Oxyrhincus”. Between “The Ritual of the Door”. The theme laughed and called him “Millione”, with people, in spite of the restrictive actor and the text presented to the 1985 and 1987 it was performed in of the performance is a common because everything he described conditions, is essentially about the spectators compose the music of a 12 countries in Europe and South one in mythology and folklore. was a million times more incredible strategy of insubordination by means performance. America. than anything they had imagined. of theatre. PRODUCTIONS

A One Woman Show: On the Edge: Madeleine Kitten Richard II Julius Cesar Chinese Take Away

Based on the stories of performer/ Madeleine is an exploration of Kitten – a bi-polar soap trip – opera Deborah Warner’s staging of A fast-moving thriller about a writer Anna Yen’s grandmother, schizophrenia and it’s effect on a A drama in three acts: from tragic, to Richard II with Fiona Shaw as the struggle for democracy, William mother and herself, using a young woman and her family. It is manic, to sonic. The play attempts king stirred up a significant critical Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is also a unique blend of storytelling, circus the second in a cycle of new works, to capture the Bi-Polar experience controversy when it was presented love story between two men united skills, clowning, movement and by Black Sequin Productions, in it’s form as well as content. This in 1995 at the National Theatre, and by an explosive act of political magic. The play travels from one exploring mental illness. The first is achieved by the externalising of then later in Salzburg and Paris. violence. generation to another. was Kitten – a bi polar soap opera, the internal experience of Kitten. premiered at the Melbourne This is further augmented by the International Festival for the Arts character of Kitten being played by in 2008. three performers.

Masters of Street Theatre Three Experimental Andre Serban: Black Symphony Madame Mao Short American Plays The Greek Trilogy Genet on Film

A unique snapshot of the brilliant work RATS by Israel Horovitz - Written Performance of excerpts from off- A physical theatre version of Jean A Play by Therese Radic, performed of some of the world’s acclaimed street 1969, Video Produced 2006, 25 mins. Broadway experimental productions Genet’s play The Blacks was performed in the Liverpool Playhouse in 1989. theatre groups: Grouppe F, Studio Based on the reign of Mao Tse-Tung OUR LITTLE TRIP by Lawrence of Andre Serban’s flamboyant in a cellar-theatre in Budapest by the Festi, Le Quidams, Bambuco and and about Chinese politics, war and Ferlinghetti - Written 1964, Video interpretations of classic Greek Theatre alternative theatre company, Domino Ulrich - Le Snob. Outdoor theatre with political repression. Jiang Qing, also Produced 1989, 12 mins. pieces: Euripides’ Electra, Medea in 1970. The company was regularly elements of sculpture installations, live and The Trojan Women. Margaret banned by the Communist regime. known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese music, pyrotechnology, extraordinary SOAP OPERA by Ralph Pape - Croyden provides introductions and The Blacks was closed down after only Communist Revolutionary, actress, costums and open-air settings. Written 1983, Video Produced 1991, commentary. With music by Elizabeth a few performances after tickets were and major political figure during the 53 mins. Swados. sold for triple price on the blackmarket. Cultural Revolution (1966–76). PRODUCTIONS

The Pessoptimist Eden The Bald Soprano Small Poppies The Show

The Pessoptimist - Saeed, the It powerfully illustrates the mental With music by American composer This fascinating documentary gives *WINNER Best Tertiary Educational Donkey, & the Israeli Big Man... “a and physical harm produced by Martin Kalmanoff and state-of- a detailed insight into the staging Resource Award at the 2003 ATOM message to earthlings from outer dictatorships in 20th century the- art video techniques. The of the successful play, “Small Awards. A fly-on-the-wall look space.” What is the difference Central-Europe. It shows how young and talented cast offers Poppies” in which adult actors at the personalities, challenges, between a pessimist and an optimist ordinary people try to defend solid vocal artistry and perfectly- play 5 year olds on their first day triumphs and traumas of the world living in Israel? The pessimist says themselves spiritually and mentally. pitched comic acting, resulting in a of school, through rehearsal and of community theatre. What are the things can’t get any worse while the delightful comic opera in English of performance. skills and personal qualities needed optimist says they can. a major theatrical work. to stage a piece of community theatre? Available in AU only.

Black Rooster After Midnight Length of 100 Needles Embodied Humility / Summer in Ivye Opus about Plain

With music based on the Sawung It gives an insight into life on the Josef Nadj plays a magician. Objects, Part 1 documents Nadj’s creative With warmth and humor, the film Galing myth from Java Indonesia, sprawling puszta of Bácska. Melding sounds, spaces and people change method, from initial rehearsals captures the group’s attempts to Black Rooster draws the audience percussion, dance, live music, their meaning and function at each through to the premiere. In Part 2 transcend differences in language, into a wild and fantastic world motion picture and puppetry, Nagy moment on stage – in an almost Nadj sets himself a new challenge religion and culture in order to tell where despots sow confusion and uses a unique artistic language to imperceptible way. Still, deep as he digresses from the stage, a moving story of love and loss. cultivate prejudices amongst the portray human endeavor in all its down, they all remain themselves building and devising theatre in an Produced by Lori Cheatle, Directed people to maintain their power. glory and disappointment. in this perpetual variation. Despite unaccustomed space. by Tamar Rogoff and Daisy Wright. his use of myth, iconography and discontinuity, the characters become familiar and personal. COLLEGE / SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS

Heavy Metal Hamlet Salome Doll Seventeen Hamlet Stooged! Midsummer Night’s Romeos

In behaviour veering between levity In Salome the combination of dra- This work has a mystical aura In this short and sharp one-act take Director Jacqui Carroll has twinned and solemnity; savagery and courtesy; matic form within a lyrical poetic through the use of imagery that on Hamlet, Ozfrank respectfully Shakespeare’s play to make a irony and pathos; Hamlet reveals to us, framework draws the work into the is both cartoon-like and surreal. turns Shakespeare to squarely modern masque, a parade of dream in a series of images, the hysteria of his fantastic. The myth blended with Ninety percent of the dialogue has face the standup comedy genre. like fantasy characters that disport emotions. the symbolic create a heady mix. In been replaced by movement and The boy/man, accompanied by dog themselves in the ancient and this production this mix is recreated music that is entertaining, poignant Horatio and his air guitar, turns up modern agonies and ecstasies of through a veil of sound & music. and witty. in a bizarre dream/nightmare world. love.

Oedipus Rex Manga Ulysses The Romance of Orpheus Rashomon Everyman: The Reckoning of Badengood

Oedipus, with passion and energy, Having greatly angered the gods, The age-old tale of Orpheus’ Based on a short story by Japanese With an amusing and common touch, battles against the forces of destiny. Ulysses, attempting to return to his journey to the Underground to get author Akutagawa, it tells the tale the dialogue is rendered into a Those eternal, implacable forces, home in Ithaca, faces many trials back his beloved Eurydice, cruelly of an encounter between a robber, modern elastic vernacular. This is an according to the ancient Greeks, and tribulations on this journey. bitten by a snake and taken by a traveler and his wife.All three gi\ old fashioned story given a succinct govern everyone’s lives. This celebrated story is shown here Hades, is here told in a gripping ve their version of an encounter on contemporary wit by Ozfrank Theatre. within a big movement/theatre/ ritual of movement and sound. a mountain track which alters their Still true after all these years! music event. lives forever. COLLEGE / SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS

The Cult of Dionysus Inside The Tempest: The Tempest Romeo & Juliet Unleashed Physicalising Shakespeare

75’ | ZEN-Cult | DVD & Streaming 27’+28 ’| ZEN-Tempestln | DVD& 75’ |ZEN-Tempest| DVD & Streaming 55’|ZEN-Romeo| DVD & Streaming 80’| ZEN-Unleashed | DVD& Streaming Streaming Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre present Based on Euripides’ Greek classic, The 30-minute documentary aims to Originally created in 2004 for the First debuted in 1996, Unleashed a visually, physically and aurally “The Bacchae”, The Cult of Dionysus educate and inspire young people Queensland Arts Council schools went to to be the hit of the Adelaide stunning adaption of Shakespeare’s was the hit of the inaugural Brisbane with an interest in drama by exploring touring program, ROMEO & JULIET Fringe Festival in 2000. Showcasing last play, The Tempest. Directed by Festival in 1996. First performed in the relationship between training, has been a hit with students and the Japanese dance-theatre form Zen Zen Zo Artistic Director Lynne Japan in 1994, this ground-breaking creation and performance of The teachers throughout Australia and Butoh, this work explores the surreal Bradley, this poetic and provocative production was a part of the first Tempest, using Zen Zen Zo’s unique Hong Kong. This high energy show territory of dreams and nightmares retelling of Shakespeare’s classic wave of physical theatre works to be style. explores Shakespeare’s ROMEO & through a series of six dances. showcased in Australia. features live music and a cast of 10 JULIET through the eyes of three actors, dancers and singers. modern high school students.

College Brecht BAAL - by Bertolt Brecht The Bulgar’s Tale The Women of Troy Woyzeck - in English Following Brecht’s footsteps

The film presents a series of workshops Brecht’s argument seems to be that Disc 1: PDF: including the Script The drama department at Xaverian Produced by Francis Annan and Xaverian with college students, aged 16-18, in a society, which is dominated by and notes. Disc 2: a recording of Sixth Form College in Manchester College, Manchester, this feature-length to suggest approaches to Brecht as class, it is impossible to maintain the play performed by the students embarked on an ambitious project to production is the world’s first English playwright and practitioner. The sessions an absolute individual moral code: of Xaverian on DVD. The script for produce a film version of ‘The Trojan language version of Georg Buchner’s could be adapted to suit high school, ethics depends on what face you this version of the play was written Women’ by Euripides. Lead by director/ stage-play, Woyzeck (1837). undergraduate or youth theatre groups. are dealing with, or presenting to by Wynn Moran and Rob Faulkner producer Phil Hawkins, a professional the world. especially for Xaverian College, crew filmed for a week, and nine The workshop film is recommended for Manchester, UK. months later the film received its secondary education. premiere to great reviews. K-12

Commedia by Fava: Black Comedy alla The Commedia dell’ Arte Mask Mask Making Mime Step by Step (2 parts) Pulcinella by Antonio Fava

258’ | AF-Commby | DVD & Streaming 148’ | CAM-Fava | DVD & Streaming 54’ | KD-Mask | DVD & Streaming 54’ | KD-Mmake | DVD & Streaming 54’ | KD-Mime | DVD & Streaming The 2 DVDs is the most complete, A real deal: an original performance up-to-date method for learning with an internationally acclaimed Firstly, exercises explores the use The program demonstrates three In the earliest exercises students Commedia dell’Arte as taught by Italian master, Antonio Fava. Little of “neutral mask” to force students basic mask making techniques, learn to isolate and articulate each Antonio Fava. The world-famous Opera in words, Lazzi and Music to learn to express emotions through ranging from a simple plaster body part. Later exercises provide maestro explains and demonstrates in the style of the Neapolitan posture and gesture, without facial bandage technique to subtle and students with a Mime vocabulary in details the characters, movement, Commedia dell’arte. expression. Then, exercises explore flexible latex masks and fanciful they can use to articulate objects, masks, and comic scenarios of the use of masks as a way of papier-mâché techniques. characters, environments, processes Commedia dell’ Arte. inhabiting alternative identities. and stories.

Commedia dell’ Arte Spirit of Commedia The Hamlet in Circus in Education Dance and Drama in Commedia dell’ Arte style Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

This documentary/ interview allows This video introduction to the Michael Alaimo and his group CIRCUS SKILLS The only available The result of a unique three-year an informative insight into Antonio commedia dell’arte features Luoghi perform several scenes from instructional video which teaches collaboration between Ugandan Fava’s teachings both theoretical and dell’Arte, one of Rome’s leading “Hamlet” in “Commedia dell’arte” the basics of JUGGLING, STILLTS, playwright, researcher, teacher practical as the traditional character commedia dell’arte companies, in style: his advice to the players, the UNICYCLING, ACROBATICS, WIRE and folklore exponent, Dr Mercy of Pulcinella is being performed by performance, in the studio and in encounter with his father’s ghost his WALKING. Reg Bolton explains all Mirembe Ntangaare and New Zealand him and his students. In English and discussion. confrontation with his mother, and the secrets while teaching a groups teacher, playwright and researcher, Italian. Ophelia’s “mad scene”. of year 8 students. Susan Battye, the e-book provides many contemporary and historical perspectives on Ugandan dance and drama.

SHAKESPEARE K-12

Combat for the Stage 96’ | DVC-Combat| DVD Shakespeare is Alive and Well in the Modern World 47’ | GA-Shake1 | DVD & Streaming Creative Drama & Improvisation 110’ | DVC-Creat | DVD This program compares Shakespearean themes with similar themes from modern works, enabling students to Your class is encouraged to participate along with the penetrate complex Elizabethan vocabulary and experience following exercises: -What is creative drama? -Dramatic insight into character’s feelings, motives and actions. play and exercises -The creative process -Improvisational exercises -Creative drama for rehearsals. Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Video Commentary 28’ | GA-Shake3 | DVD & Streaming The Directing Process 90’ | DVC-Direct| DVD History of directing, Working with designers, How to Explore the characters, stories and central themes of select a play, Principles of staging, Text analysis, Blocking Shakespearean tragedy. The program is based on an & Picturization, Successful Collaboration, Rehearsing the interview with Suzanne L. Wofford, Assistant Prof. of play. English, Yale University, who describes the theatre of Shakespeare’s day and the nature of his tragedy. Drama/Comedy 45’ | GA-DC | DVD & Streaming The Stage Fight Director 33’ | TAV-Fi | DVD This program discusses comedy, its plot devices, stock characters, different forms, satiric goals and black humour and illustrates its diversity with lively excerpts from Voice Workout for the Actor 33’ | TAV-Voice| DVD Shakespeare, Kopit, Simon, Friedman, Goldsmith and Shaw.

Drama/Tragedy 45’ | GA-DT | DVD & Streaming Defines tragedy and tragic conflict, explores the major aspects of character and structure in tragic drama. Illustrated and explored through selections from such Shakespeare at Sea JD-Sha | e-book great dramatists as Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Ibsen, A piece of theatre in education that offers the young Shakespeare, O’Neill, Sophocles and Arthur Miller. playgoer an introduction to many of the characters from Shakespeare’s comedies. The tragedies are A Dynamic Vocal Workout 25’ | TAV-Speak | DVD represented by characters in the subplots such as Hamlet (a mouse),Romeo (a dog) and Juliet(a cat) all of whom Performing Shakespeare contribute to Will’s play in some way. 120’ | TAV-Perf | DVD JD-Zak | e-book Move your way through any Shakespearean text with Zak Zebra a highly physical series of exercises presented by On the plains of the Serengeti, Zak Zebra, takes on the Shakespeare specialist Kathleen F. Conlin. This video goes task of the dangerous quest even as the adults in his from the exploration of specific words and movements to community retreat from their responsibilities. The e-book the development of the ghost scene from Hamlet. Divided contains a vast array of images, the entire play script, into ten easy-to-show segments. director’s notes and video clips.

Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe Athena Emu at the Olympics JD-Ath | e-book 28’ | GA-Shake2 | DVD & Streaming Written and Directed by Jenny de Reuck This e-book with Discussion of early theaters and the operations of its blend of classical fact and fiction offers drama teachers the Globe, its architecture, stage design and galleries. a lively script for young performers and audiences as well Dramatic readings, authentic costumes and sound effects as set and costume designs, the lyrics and musical scores present Shakespearean drama as it may have looked to its for the songs. original audiences. asian collection

The Theatres of Asia: Asian Theater: An Introduction Conversation with A.C. Scott

DG-Asia | 45’ | DVD & Streaming MS-Scot | 28’ | DVD

Places the major forms of both Asian A.C. Scott elaborates on his long years classical and folk theatre in their of experience in China and Japan cultural context, this video introduces and shows film clips and slides of his Asian theatre through the roles it plays classes, rehearsals and workshop in the lives of Asian people and its productions in which Asian performers special relationship to young people. have assisted him in the training of American student actors. NOH THEATRE

Acting Techniques of Noh, the Classical The Japanese Noh - Theatre & Music Music of the the Noh Theatre Theatre of Japan Noh Theatre 2 DVDs Noh Theatre of Japan Selected Scenes

MS-Noh | 29’ | DVD MG-Japan | 28’ | DVD MG-Sel | 103’ | DVD & Streaming MG-Noh | 194’ | DVD MG-Music | 91’ | DVD & Streaming

With Akira Matsui. Basic posture Akiro Matsui, professional actor Performance selections from the Five Musical segments from the Musical segments from the following patterns of walking and turning. and master-teacher of the Kita Noh Main Schools of Traditional Japanese following Noh plays and Dances: Noh plays and dances: Okina, Sanbaso, Variations of these depending on School of Tokyo, performs excerpts Noh; including: Takasago Yashima, Okina Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa Kami-mai, Miwa, Kakko, Nomori, the sex, temperament, age and from the plays BENKEI ON THE Hagoromo, Tenko, Midare, Koi no Kakko, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Shishi, Utaura, Matsumushi, Kanjincho, personality of a character. Symbolism BRIDGE and THE LADY HAN. The Netori, Youchi Soga Matsumushi, Kanjincho, Miidera. Miidera. Performed by many of the of hand gestures and more... Ominameshi, Kazuraki. Interviews: most important musicians of the Noh excerpts illustrate widely contrasting Performance selections from the Okura Genjiro, Fujita Rokurobyoue theatre world. aspects of the Noh actor’s art. Umewaka Gensyou and more... Five Main Schools of Traditional Japanese Noh.

Noh Play Noh Theatre - Dojoji Asian Concepts of Stage Bunraku The Lovers’ Exile “Tale of Genji” excerpts Discipline and Western Classical Japanese Actor Training Puppet Art

Excerpts from the Japanese dance- Featuring highlights and a complete A.C. Scott draws on long years of Includes performances from two Brings an engaging theatrical form drama Noh play “Tale of Genji”, performance. Featuring Kanze experience in China, Japan, and traditional Bunraku dramas and from Japan to contemporary cinema from the 14th century, performed Kiyokazu, at Obori Koen Nogakudo, teaching to present a clear philosophy filmed scenes showing how the audiences, merging the artistry and by Tatsuo Minagawa,Tei Ko, Shizu Fukuoka; Umewaka Rokuro, at Nagoya of Asian stage discipline and its puppets are made and articulated. grace of the legendary Bunraku Nakamura, and Yuki Shimoda, with Nogakudo; Shiotsu Akio, filmed on the application to the training of western Commentary by Faubion Bowers, Puppet Theatre with the power of the commentary by the leading Japanese outdoor Noh Stage of Misogi Shrine actors. expert on dance and Asian arts. screen through the collective talent of scholar Donald Keene. Nogakuden, in Yamanashi. many international contributors. KABUKI

Kabuki Techniques Kabuki Acting Kabuki Acting Kabuki Classics: Kabuki for Western Techniques 1: Techniques II: Onoe Baiko VII in Actors and Directors The Body The Voice The Salt Gatherer

CAT-Kab | 27’ | DVD & Streaming MS-Kab1 | 60’ | DVD MS-Kab2 |29’ | DVD CAT-Kabcl| 27’ | DVD & Streaming MS-Kabwes | 37’ | DVD

Two of the greatest stars of Japan’s Leonard Pronko demonstrates Pronko explains a range of voices Performance by Kabuki actor Baiko Pronko outlines a multitude of ways Kabuki Theatre reveal the acting fundamental techniques in Kabuki appropriate for depicting the young VII of a famous 18th Century Kabuki Kabuki may be used by actors and techniques used in this most acting. Male movement patterns, girl, noble wife, evil warrior, young dance based on a Noh drama. Baiko directors in the West. He provides a difficult of theatre forms. Onoe variations in the walk, poses and man, old woman and refined also grants a rare interview, explains range of filmed illustrations from his Shoroku II and Onoe Baiko VII exits, female movement patterns warrior. He demonstrates numerous his art and the origin of the dance he own productions and shows slides discuss and demonstrate their craft. based on age, temperament and social specialized vocal techniques with performs and gives notes on technique of his recent show, THE REVENGER’S Includes footages of great Kabuki class. Excerpts from professional filmed illustrations. to his son, also a Kabuki actor. TRAGEDY. performances of the past. performers.

Kabuki-za Final Curtain Tamasaburo Bando Kabuki Dance Collection Fuji Musume MG-Fuj | 70’ | DVD Tamasaburo Bando dances Fuji Musume. Features the dances, Yukari no Tuki, Yasuna, Aoi no Ue, Kane no Misaki.

Kagamijishi MG-Kag | 70’ | DVD Tamasaburo Bando displays his extraordinary versatility in this most demanding of roles; first as a shy maiden and then as a fierce lion. Also features Tamasaburo in the dances Kanaya Tanzen and Kosu no To.

Musume Dojoji MG-Mus | 70’ | DVD Performed at Tokyo’s Kabuki-Za Theatre, Tamasaburo is seen here at the height of his powers as a dancer. MG-Kabuki | 160’ | DVD Onatsu Kyoran MG-Onat | 119’ | DVD Ichikawa Danjuro XII, Onoe Today it is one of the best surviving examples of early 20th century theatre Kikugoro VII, Nakamura Jakuemon reform, reform that sought to do away with much that was illogical in traditional IV, Nakamura Baiygoku IV, Kataoka Kabuki dance and to concentrate instead on the psychological realism of the Nizaemon XVI, Nakamura Kanzaburo characters. XVIII, Nakamura Kichiemon II and many of the greats of the Kabuki MG-Sag | 70’ | DVD world appear in this documentary. Sagi Musume Yokihi MG-Yok | 70’ | DVD Part fairy tale, part ghost story, Princess Yôkihi (Yang Kwei Fei) is one of the most beautiful love stories in Chinese history. KABUKI

Masterpieces of Kabuki Theatre Series An outstanding series of Kabuki Plays. All filmed at Tokyo’s famed Kabuki- za Theatre. Many of the most widely admired Kabuki stars, several declared Living National Treasures of Japan, are included in this selection of Kabuki masterworks.

Vol. 1-16 Code: MG-Mast Vol. 1-33 Code: MG-Mast2

Vol 1: KANJINCHO,The Subscription List Vol 2:TOGITATSU NO UTARE,The Revenge on Togitatsu Vol 3: KUMAGAI JINYA, Kumagai’s Battle Camp Vol 4: YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA, Yoshitsune & the 1000 Cherry Trees Vol 5: KOCHIYAMA, The Robber Kochiyama Vol 6: SHIRANAMI GONIN OTOKO, The Five Bandits Vol 7: FUINKIRI, Breaking the Seal Vol 8: ISE ONDO KOI NO NETABA, The Ise Dances & Love’s Dull Blade Vol 9: FUJI MUSUME, The Wisteria Maiden, Yasuna & Sagi Musume (The Heron Maiden) Vol 10: TERAKOYA, The Village School Vol 11: DATTAN, The Fire Ritual, Ninin Wankyu (The Two Wankyus) Vol 12: SUMIDAGAWA, Sumida River, Hanabusa Shujaku Jishi (Shujaku Lion Dance) Vol 13: JUSSHUKO, Ten Types of Incense, Kenreimonin Vol 14: YAMATO TAKERU, Super Kabuki Vol 15: IPPON GATANA DOHYO IRI, The Wrestling Ring and the Sword Vol 16: KANJINCHO, The Subscription List Vol 17: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 1 Acts 3 & 4 (2 DVDS) Vol 18: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 2 Acts 5 & 6 Vol 19: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 3 Act 7 Vol 20: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 4 Acts 9 & 11 Vol 21: SUKEROKU Flower of Edo Vol 22: KUROZUKA The Black Mound Vol 23: AKOYA - THE COURTESAN AKOYA Vol 24: THE RENOWNED BANZUI CHOBEI Vol 25: GOSHO NO GOROZO: THE GALLANT GOROZO Vol 26: KENUKI: THE WHISKER TWEEZERS and NARUKAMI THE PRIEST Vol 27: IBARAKI and SAKANAYA SOGORO Vol 28: IGAGOE DOCHU SUGUROKU - IN NUMAZU Vol 29: DATE NO JUYAKU: TEN ROLES OF THE DATE CLAN Vol 30: YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA: TOKAI-YA, DAIMOTSU NO URA Vol 31: ISHIKIRI KAJIWARA - STONE CUTTING KAJIWARA Vol 32: THREE KABUKI DANCES Vol 33: KINKAKUJI: THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION BUTOH / BALI THEATRE

Physical Theatre: Cine Dance: The Butoh Butoh Butoh Butoh and Beyond of Tatsumi Hijikata Piercing the Mask Body Weather Farm (by Takahiko iimura)

KD-But | 39’ | DVD & Streaming TI-Cinedance | 33’ | DVD & Streaming NBD-But2 | 49’ | DVD & Streaming STA-But | 20’ | DVD & Streaming

The video is a documentary of a Anma (The Masseurs) Dancers: This documentary pierces the An insight into the training practices workshop presented by Cheryl Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito mystery and mystique of a dance and life on Body Weather Farm - the Heazlewood in Perth in 1996. Ohno, Akira Kasai, and others. Rose movement adored by the West and home to one of Japan’s most enigmatic Cheryl presents powerful and inspiring Color Dance Dancers: Tatsumi largely ignored by the Japanese. It Butoh practitioners, Min Tanaka training exercises which are drawn Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, uses archival and modern footage and his dance company, Mai Juku. from her eclectic training in occidental Akira Kasai, Mitsutaka Ishii, and of leading Butoh performers - Featuring previously unpublished and oriental movement and theatre. others... Dairakudakan, Hakutobo, Kazuo Ono photographs. - and interviews.

The Bali Dances: Dances of Bali Acting Techniques Adapting Topeng, Masks and Faces: A Veil Between Worlds of Topeng, Masked the Masked Theatre of Dance and Drama Theatre of Bali Bali in Bali

Eleven of Bali’s most dramatic dances Several important classic Balinese John Emigh introduces the masked John Emigh explains how he has A comprehensive guide to Balinese to show how intimately culture, dances are performed by six dancers theatre of Bali and shows how incorporated mask training and dance and drama by Dr. David religion and life are inter-twined in and twelve musicians, artists masks may be used as a guide to the improvisation. Highlighted with George. Dancing for the Gods; Bali. Content: Legong Kraton, Aria, celebrated in their own culture yet interpretation of character. The walk, humorous excerpts from LITTLE Trance and Dance; Masks and Faces; Sanghyang Jaran & Kecak, Baris, hardly known abroad. Interviews in variations on the basic walk, variety RED RIDING SHAWL. He discusses Shadows Of The Past (Topeng). With Topeng, Joged, Palawakiya, Terunajaya, Malay with two leading dancers are of character types and voices that is the ways he has combined ideas more than 100 unique slides. Condong, Calonarang. included: Raka and Sukraka. possible to achieve with the masks. from the West and from the masked theatre of Bali. STAGECRAFT / BACKSTAGE

Standby Cue 101 How to Create Costumes Low-Budget SFX for Performance 27’ | ML-Circus| DVD & Streaming

To make good costumes for stage performances you need to “understand what goes into an act and how costumes will interact with the performer”. A Documentary by Marianne Latham.

Costume Designer for world- renowned Circus of Oz, Laurel Frank talks about her trade and how her 56’ | DM-Standby | DVD & Streaming 100’ | MRG-How | DVD & Streaming designs take an integral role on stage. She uses traditional lycra and sequins An Introduction to Calling Live The film features real-time makeup with a modern and vivid twist. A Performances is a first-of-its-kind application for a number of scenarios colourful account on designing for training film for students and early including cuts, bite marks, bullet stage, working with performers and career stage managers. The film holes and stitches. Uses easy to find making art that must be applied with focuses on the role of the stage ingredients such as tissue paper strict functionality. manager in technical rehearsals and latex along with blood made and performances. from food topping and colouring to produce outstanding results.

Visual Effect Library for Affective Space: Multimedia Performance Theory and Practice The Make-Up Workshop 104’ | DVC-Makeup| DVD+Streaming The Basic Costumer 73’ | DVC-Cost|DVD+Streaming Shedding Some Light 95’ | DVC-Light | DVD+Streaming Basic Set Construction 72’ | DVC-Basic | DVD 62’ | NJ-Mult| DVD 68’ | STA-Affec | DVD Scene Painting Techniques These multimedia pieces are 3 Disc account on the subject of 83’ | DVC-Paint| DVD+Streaming originally designed for productions Affective Space: includes a PhD which used full screen projection as dissertation by Serge Tampalini, Conducting Light backdrop and/or frontal projection on Lecturer and Theatre Designer/ 60’ | TAV-Cond | DVD+Streaming the bodies of the performers. 1. Tools Director for two decades. Through - images of industrial, mechanical the consideration of more than thirty Play it Safe: Introduction tools were digitally manipulated theatre productions it investigates 2. Sustainability - forest, water… design outside of its decorative role. to Theatre Safety nature’s images 3. Claustrophobia - 82’ | TAV-Play | DVD+Streaming machines and threads Websites: BROWSE MORE CATALOGS:

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