Role-based Training in Staging an Educational Performance

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to try to determine the role of actor role-based training in staging an educational performance and address the creative issues of the improvement of this process in a higher drama school. Methods. There are two levels of research – cultural and art studies – that determine the application of the interdisciplinary approach to a complex methodological system. There is an analytical method to investigate the conceptual approaches on which actor role-based training is based. The systematisation method is used to create a training system in staging an educational performance in the paper. Scientific novelty. The author first studies the process of role-based training in producing an educational performance of the graduate students in a higher drama school and considers the specifics of the word, which has a semantic field, which reproduces semantic and associative series in a performer’s mind. Conclusions. Training can become the main professional skill in working on such a role that the actor has to master in the creative process of staging an educational performance. Training is not a set of fixed exercises learned in a higher drama school, but the ability to constantly look for different ways of working on a role. The solution of the problems of theatre pedagogy, connected with transformation and regulatory role of the word in an actor’s behaviour on stage, is a necessary part of the continuation of K. Stanislavsky’s search, which remains unfinished, but still attracts attention. It has been proved that role-based training, which has a psychophysiological fact, is necessary for creating specific conditions in the actor’s approach to educational performance. Training requires systematisation, in which feelings are born, formed, and developed dynamically in the process. It has been ascertained that acting is not a performing act but a profound creative process involving both the conscious and the unconscious.

Keywords

• psychotechnique
• role-based training
• given circumstances
• educational performance
• imagination
• atmosphere