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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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KEEPING DISTANCE AND COMPLETE FUSION INTO A CHARACTER
Radová, Marie ; ŠIKTANCOVÁ, Jaroslava (advisor) ; MRKVIČKA, Ladislav (referee)
This thesis examines my method of portraying theatrical characters throught the main ideas and dramatic theories of Denis Diderot, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky and Bertolt Brecht. I perceive the themes of blending with a character and keeping a distance from a character as a question of sense and sensibility in theater, i.e. a question of conscious acting as opposed to acting which stems from the subconscious. While constantly rehearsing new roles and searching for my theatrical self, I came across three mutually contradictory dramatic theories and began to feel a need to confront them. In this thesis, I compare Diderot's Paradox of Acting, Stanislavsky's Method and Brecht's approach to one another while commenting on them from the perspective of my own acting experience. I further elaborate on my acting experience in the chapter about Letovisko, my second graduation play at the Disk Theatre. It is in this chapter where I answer most of my questions related to my acting. Another acting experience described in this thesis is my work on two productions of Bertold Brecht's Drums in the Night. I compare a version me and my classmates rehearsed in our second semester and a different, altered version we created four years later
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ON THE EDGE BETWEEN DISTANCE AND SELF - IDENTIFICATION
Kraus, Adam ; KUDLÁČKOVÁ, Jana (advisor) ; MRKVIČKA, Ladislav (referee)
The title of this work ?On the edge between distance and self - identification? refers to the problem that Adam Kraus is dealing with for some time. Kraus reflects his own experiences that he got at acting classes, on his internship in London and even during his first experience in stage direction. Although it´s not easy to move on this edge, he explores the conflict between his inclination to analyse things and to approach them in a critical way and between his need to identify himself with the character he creates. He tries to find the essence of this conflict and to find a way out of it that could develop his creative potential.
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THE PERSONALITY PRECONDITIONS OF THE ACTOR AND THEIR DEVELOPING
Ďurišová, Michala ; Kudláčková, Jana (advisor) ; Mrkvička, Ladislav (referee)
The name of the diploma thesis is The personality preconditions of the actor and their developing. In the initial part I focus on general definition of the term personality and also on the personality of the actor. I describe everything that is necessary for the acting and everything that is typical for the specific actor personality. In other parts I focus on my acting preconditions and their developing during rehearsing and repeated performances in the school theater Disk. I try to desribe problems that I met during the work and that influenced me. The writting about my school practice is completed by theoretical knowledges in the propar field. In the next part I try to desribe how my view on the actor`s work developed during my study. In the last part I summarize and evaluate achieved results and my conclusion is that actor must learn and develop his preconditions the whole life.
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A YOURNEY TO THE ACTOR´S TRUTH
Tichý, Miloslav ; Salzmannová, Eva (advisor) ; Mrkvička, Ladislav (referee)
The actor´s truth or the actor´s truthfulness. How can I reach it? What I have to do to avoid false intonating? What should I do to realize what I am saying, what I am playing, what I should feel, how I should move, what I want, who I am and where I am? I´m trying to answer all these questions, because it is the actor´s truth, what attracts me, interests me and fills me up. In my master thesis I describe my attitude to a role that brings me closer to the actor´s truthfulness. I result from my professors, who taught me and influenced me for four years on the theatre faculty, and also from the book ?The Actor and the Target?, written by Declan Donnellan. (1) ?We are not here to get things either right or wrong. We are here to do our best.?
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Behaviour and dealnig like actor´s material (experiences of studies)
Holík, Jan ; Mrkvička, Ladislav (advisor) ; Šiktancová, Jaroslava (referee)
This work is engaged with actor´s behaviour and dealing with his performing and further on with actor´s experience, acquired during four years of his studies, which are closely connected with above mentioned actor´s work. Here I touch the pedegogical work of my professors and I´m engaged with thoughts connected with my studies at DAMU. Further on I parcticularly devote myself to the character of Rudolf in Koltes´s play ?Western Harbour? to our work in our last year. I try to formulate there with auto-reflection my proceedings along with my own actor´s work and I devote myself to the rise of the performance too.
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Theme of a character and an actor's tools. King Basilio and characters during studies
Horák, Jan ; Mrkvička, Ladislav (advisor) ; Kudláčková, Jana (referee)
At the very beginning there were a lot of impressions, explosions of inspirations and ideas and I wished to write them down and to share them. I am leaving the school full of fresh experiences and this diploma work is an opportunity for me to judge my activity in DAMU, to recall some moments, to organize them and to give names to these experiences, which remind in my memory in a form of feelings and impressions.
I will go chronologically through each period of my studding, describe my work on the received tasks in view of actor's tools and themes of characters. Sometimes I will stop, once because of a new idea, once because of problems, that I had to get through.
"I am coming to confess to you" - Those are the very first verses of king Basilio, my final role. I wish this diploma work, would be nothing more.
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METHODS OF ACTOR´S EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENTS
Stavná, Zuzana ; Mrkvička, Ladislav (advisor) ; Grossmannová-Málková, Marie (referee)
In my diploma work I deal with the question, how are the implications of workshops aimed at dramatical and motion theatre and dance by creating character in an inscenation which works with dramatical text. This reflexion comes out from my own experiences with this approach to dramatic art. In my diploma work I describe performances and workshops, which I attended either during my studies of acting art on DAMU or during my extracurricular work.
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SOCIAL ROLE OF AN ACTOR IN THE CZECH THEATRE
Konečný, Jan ; Mrkvička, Ladislav (advisor) ; Hlaváčová, Jana (referee)
The present thesis synthesizes my reflections on the role of an actor not only in dramatic arts but in the Czech society as a whole at the turn of the 21th century. It is a reflection of all I have seen, observed and learned. I?m seeking not only to voice my personal opinions, but to put them forward from the wider perspective of Czech society, and as a representative of one generation. The text is therefore subjective and personal.
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