This week we have been talking about realism, the Stanislavsky system and the definitions of situation, condition and circumstances in relation to acting, directing & theatre in general. Realism is where you attempt to represent a subject matter while avoiding artificiality. This basically means that we make scenes without adding anything artificial. For realism we did an activity called “the magic if”. This is a game where a person or multiple people start of in a scene with a simple goal such as waiting for the bus or waiting to be called up in the hospital etc. While the scene is going on, the audience has to say, “What if ……..” At this point they have to change the atmosphere of the scene by adding another character or changing something in the environment. When we were talking about Stanislavsky, we were looking at a script for a section of another play and we started looking at subheadings/subgoals for the characters in that scene. The term given circumstances is applied to the total set of environmental and situational conditions which influence the actions that a actor outtakes in drama. Condition in drama is where you add certain terms to a scene or character. An example of this would be to have an old man walking across the street. Then the condition would be that he walks crookedly. Situation is a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs.
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