In this lecture, Egill Palsson, director, teacher and artistic director of the Artic Theater in Tromsø, Norway, will go through the vocabulary and tools in the Action Analyses by Maria Knebel, Georgi Tovstanogov and Konstantin Sergejewitsch Stanislawski.

Here’s a bit more detailed overview of what Egill talkes about. Enjoy the lecture!

• Maria Knebel, Georgi Tovstanogov and Konstantin Stanislawski
• Two Systems: Action Analysis and Physical Actions
• What is an action?
• Overview:
  • Large Circle (where the play comes from)
  • Middle Circle (the play / action analyses)
  • Small Circles (each situation in a play)
  • What is a situation?
  • Estimation process in three phases
• Large Circle in Detail
• Artistic Research
• Middle Circle in Detail
• The contradiction
• Aristoteles‘ theatre of dramas three main principles
• Dramatic text based theatre
• Gustav Freytag‘s Pyramide
• The three „C“s of Drama: Conflict, Character, Conventions
• Assingments
• The search for the five situations
• Concept Phase
• Unsolvable Conflict
• The Directorial Concept (Staging, The Concept Motor, The Dramatic Metaphor, Genre, Susjet)