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Actor‘s freedom and responsibility necessary for creating a character
Švarc, Václav ; TÖPFER, Tomáš (advisor) ; KORČÁK, Jakub (referee)
This master‘s thesis deals with the issue of acting freedom and responsibility and consists of chronologically presented experience from school and professional practice. It is complemented by the possibilities of cultivating actor's freedom and, at the same time, it deals with mistakes that do not lead to it. Basic principles crucial for rehearsing and performing comedy are further revealed. The author intersperses practical experience with the positives and negatives of repetitions and compares them with professional literature. The subtext and requirements necessary for a deeper understanding of character's psychology are described as well. Character's actions and the conscious choice of body language are both discussed. In conclusion, the author's view on the topic of stage aesthetics and self-observation is compared with that of highly regarded actor. The subject of the thesis is an attempt at self-reflection.
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Actor's character at theatre and film/TV - tools and creative process
Josefíková, Eva ; SALZMANNOVÁ, Eva (advisor) ; MRKVIČKA, Ladislav (referee)
The goal of the thesis set by a student is to summarize her studies at
DAMU as well as to reflect her later experience of hosting in professional theatres
and short engagement in Kladno theatre. Appearance in front of the camera is
addressed as well.
The thesis describes the school dramatic seminars, stage or film and
television projects, which helped to change her reasoning about the work as an
actor. These projects taught her new processes and allowed her to professionally
evolve. Based on this experience, she tries to find and define mainly the
common ground for both disciplines, what resources do they require and in which
way they can influence each other.
Considering the fact that acting in front of the camera is not being taught
at DAMU, she describes her search by trial and error, or rather by collecting and
improving her experience from one project to the next. Her findings are
supported by citations from foreign literature on film acting, so far not published
in Czech Republic. Quotes are therefore her own translation.
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CREATIVE IMPULSES AND INDIVIDUAL OBSTACLES OF ACTING
Kaňkovský, Filip ; ULLRICHOVÁ, Daria (advisor) ; KUDLÁČKOVÁ, Jana (referee)
In this thesis master student presents rehearsed performances, which were in some way essential for him, and tries to discover the key moment in each of them, which meant another step in his acting experience for him. He describes the path from the first year of the Academy of Performing Arts to the engagement at the National Theatre Prague and wants to find out how does the stage work for him, what does theatre even mean for him and how are his personality traits reflected in his acting work. The student subjectively assess the importance of a link between active rehearsing and studies and deliberately pushes the theoretical knowledge of his future profession through viewed performances, which he considers equally important as just rehearsing and education.
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Acting: Journey to be an actor, journey to play a character
Volavá, Zuzana ; VELDOVÁ, Apolena (advisor) ; SÍLOVÁ, Zuzana (referee)
This Thesis describes my journey towards the theatre and personal and professional developement during my studies of classic theatre acting at the Academy of Performing Arts. I worked with my experience, to compile experience in overcoming obstacles to study specific roles. I touched upon the problem of how to combine internal and external components of actors in confrontation with feedback, defining rules and common objectives of acting. What are the risks, blocks and distractions of how to create and how to fight them? What the acting world does with personality? The goal of this Thesis, after 4 years of study and practice in the theater DISK, is to find out what I could consciously bring into the theater, how it has an effect on me and how I understand the sense of drama and entertainment practice.
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THE ACTOR-DIRECTOR COOPERATION ON CREATION OF DRAMATIC CHARACTER
Šanda, Václav ; TÖPFER, Tomáš (advisor) ; KORČÁK, Jakub (referee)
In my thesis I would like to describe the relationship between the two of the most cardinal professions that take part on the creation of a theatre production. A director is the person who creates and influences the most the idea, thoughts and genre of the production; and an actor is the one who embodies all of this on stage. I want to try to clearly demonstrate difficulties or, in the other hand, inspirational sources, which the actor is dealing with during creation of a role, depending and changing in relation with the director. As a basis of this work I chose my personal experience with two directors, whose stance during the work and relation to the actor is strongly different. First of them is Ladislav Smoček, director and playwright of Cinoherni klub. Then I would like to mention principles of cooperation with director Pavel Khek. In the first part of my thesis I want to make brief insight into history of direction and try to describe basic evolution of actor-director relationship. My goal is not to present comprehensive survey of direction history. My goal is to refer to different approaches and changes in actor-director cooperation.
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CREATION OF ACTOR´S PART AND THE UNDERSTUDY
Horáková, Nina ; TÖPFER, Tomáš (advisor) ; KUDLÁČKOVÁ, Jana (referee)
I am particularly interested in the ways of developing a character. The description of actor?s work on the role starting from the read-through to the premiere and acting in the following performances. Where can actors draw inspiration from, how can they cope with the problems related to their preparation at rehearsals, how can they prepare their bodies or what are the limits of an actor's creativity? I am concerned with the creative process, which begins with analysing the drama, identifying its principal motif, as well as the main task of the drama. I deal with this topic on the basis of my own experience using a specific description of the work on the roles during my studies at the Theatre Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts as well as on the roles I performed in my one-year theatrical practice after my studies. The final part explores the issues of the understudies or covers in the theatre.
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