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The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School.
Robert Price
Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 56
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The Drama School and The University.
Season 4 · Episode 3
jeudi 21 octobre 2021 • Duration 46:54
In which we think about Drama Schools and University Drama Departments and work our way through ‘Falling Off A Wall: Degrees of Change in British Actor Training’ Ben Frankombe's essential paper on the History of Actor Training between the 1970s and the early 2000s.
East 15 at Sixty. The first two years. Philip Hedley.
Season 4 · Episode 2
jeudi 30 septembre 2021 • Duration 01:25:30
In which we discuss how Philip Hedley came to join the first cohort of East 15 Acting School in the autumn of 1961 and examine something of the complex relationship between the school, it’s founder Maggie Bury and the work of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop.
The cover shows the blue plaque which celebrates Margaret Bury and Joan Littlewood outside of East 15’s Loughton campus.
Gielgud’s response to An Actor Prepares. A bonus edition.
vendredi 6 août 2021 • Duration 11:16
In which we read John Gielgud’s views on Stanislavsky. From January 1937.
Hiding in plain sight. Stanislavsky in translation part II.
Season 3 · Episode 9
samedi 31 juillet 2021 • Duration 48:57
This episode includes an extract from Vladimir Mirodan’s excellent paper The first class: Harold Lang and the beginnings of Stanislavskian teaching in the British conservatoire.
Stanislavsky and Benedetti : A history of the Hapgood translation.
Season 3 · Episode 8
dimanche 25 juillet 2021 • Duration 01:06:21
In which we discuss Jean Benedetti; Rose Bruford and Lamda’s recent NSS results and why Stanislavsky really wrote his books.
Stanislavsky and Shakespeare (and Saint Denis).
Season 3 · Episode 7
samedi 24 juillet 2021 • Duration 35:31
In which we read Saint Denis’ essay on the application of the Stanislavsky approach, and it’s American interpretation as the method, to the plays of Shakespeare…and perhaps understand something about the ideas underpinning the teaching at the LTS and the Old Vic School. The image is of Susanne Bing as Viola.
Shakespeare. The first lesson: Henry Vezin in 1897.
Season 3 · Episode 6
dimanche 20 juin 2021 • Duration 48:33
Ailun Zhou : Huang Zuolin at The London Theatre Studio.
Season 3 · Episode 5
mercredi 16 juin 2021 • Duration 32:56
In which a special guest tells us the story of how a young Chinese Couple became amongst the tiny number of people who studied at the London Theatre Studio in Islington just before the outbreak of the Second World War and of how they brought the ideas and pedagogy of Copeau and Suzanne Bing to the People’s Republic of China.
The London Theatre Studio. 1936 - 1939.
Season 3 · Episode 4
samedi 5 juin 2021 • Duration 57:26
In which we look to understand something about the nature of the London Theatre Studio the school founded by Michel Saint Denis in a disused Methodist Chapel in Islington in 1936.
Cover picture is of a woolwork by Merula Salaman an actor at the LTS.
Sophie Jump's PhD can be found here : https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9194/1/Sophie%20Jump%20PhD%20thesis%20FINAL%2027%20Jan%2016.pdf
Oliver Neville and the training of the actor at Rada and Julliard in 1991.
Season 3 · Episode 3
mercredi 26 mai 2021 • Duration 37:25
In Memoriam Oliver Neville 1929 - 2021. Rada's Principal from 1984 to 1993.
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