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Performing Arts

Drama

GROTOWSKI: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

World famous theatre practitioner Jerzy Grotowski has had an enormous and positive influence on contemporary theatre. This resource explores his life and work and shows how his ideas and approaches can be used by students and teachers to create powerful and successful performances. Through the use of archive performance footage, workshops, demonstrations, interviews and examples of Grotowski inspired pieces, this double DVD enables students to apply Grotowski's visionary insights to their own devised and scripted work. Includes top-band student performances and ready to use teaching materials.

2 DVDs / 2015 / 135 minutes

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CREATING COMEDY: TECHNIQUES AND EXERCISES

This Double DVD provides strategies and ideas for creating comedy for devised and scripted performances. Using interviews, workshops and performance footage from leading international comedy practitioners, this resource will guide students through the entire process, from the initial stages of researching, exploring and testing ideas through to rehearsal and final performance. Specific comedy generating strategies, like games and play, rhythm, timing and surprises, crossed objectives, double acts, major/minor and creating comedy characters are all explained, with performed examples. Includes top-band student performances and ready-to-use teaching materials.

2 DVDs / 2014 / 120 minutes

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OEDIPUSSY: MAKING PHYSICAL COMEDY WORK

This double DVD gives a unique insight into the hilarious inventiveness of internationally acclaimed physical comedy company, Spymonkey. Produced by Spymonkey and using original rehearsal footage and interviews, the resource follows the creative process from the first moments of inception through rehearsal to performance as the company turns Sophocles' most famous tragedy into a Bowie-esque space ballad. The DVD also includes a live recording of Oedipussy with commentary, as well as interviews with the artistic directors as they explore the influences on their work and the creative roles of director, writer and designer.

DISC 1 OEDIPUSSY recorded at Brighton Festival:
ACT 1 66min
ACT 2 45min (with optionalcommentary)
Promo trailer 4'27"
Audience voxpops 2'24"

DISC 2 OEDIPUSSY IN DEVELOPMENT
Starting Points 11'43"
Music & Choreography 9'24"
Creating in Collaboration 7'12"
Writing Tools 15'07"
Killing Your Darlings 14'47"
GLOSSARY 30'00"
REHEARSAL COMMENTARY by director and cast 2'28"

2 DVDs / 2014 / 100 minutes

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SO YOU WANT TO GO TO DRAMA SCHOOL?

Drama schools get thousands of applications each year from students wanting to become actors, so how can you make an application stand out? how can students be sure that the course is really the right one for them? What does the audition process involve and how can they prepare for it most effectively? Through interviews with experts at the Royal Central School of Speech an Drama, the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and the Institute of the Arts, Barcelona, this double DVD gives candidates the essential information they need to avoid the pitfalls to apply intelligently and to maximize their chances of success in auditions. Includes student accounts of the entire process and mock-auditions with students and drama school tutors.

2 DVDs / 2014 / 100 minutes

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LEGACY PROJECT, THE: DRAMATISTS TALK ABOUT THEIR WORK, VOL. 2 - CHARLES FULLER

In Conversation with Lynn Nottage Charles Fuller is the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his drama A Soldiers Play. He also founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia. Other plays include the Obie-winning Zooman and the Sign, The Perfect Party, and The Brownsville Raid. Interviewed by Lynn Nottage (Ruined).

DVD / 2013 / 52 minutes

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LEGACY PROJECT, THE: DRAMATISTS TALK ABOUT THEIR WORK, VOL. 2 - JOHN GUARE

In Conversation with Theresa Rebeck

John Guare authored the critically-acclaimed play The House of Blue Leaves, winning an Obie and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was first produced on Broadway. Its 1986 revival won four Tony awards. Guare's landmark work, Six Degrees of Separation, received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Olivier Best Play Award.

DVD / 2013 / 40 minutes

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LEGACY PROJECT, THE: DRAMATISTS TALK ABOUT THEIR WORK, VOL. 2 - TERRENCE MCNALLY

Directed by Jeremy Levine

Terrence McNally was cited as 'one of our most original and audacious dramatists' by The New Yorker. His work spans plays, films, television, operas, and musicals. His librettos include Ragtime and Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Notable plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; The Lisbon Traviata; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Master Class; Corpus Christi; and Deuce. Interviewed by Annie Baker.

DVD / 2013 / 46 minutes

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ANTONIN ARTAUD: PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO A THEATRE OF CRUELTY

This two-disc DVD set showcases practical approaches to working with Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty. It provides examples of students' work that scored 100% in their A level practical examinations. These are combined with a wealth of performance footage from professional companies, interviews and practical exercises from leading Artaud practitioners, as well as an overview from Stephen Barber, Artaud's biographer and author of three books on Artaud. A unique resource that will be invaluable for all drama teaching

2 DVDs / 2010 / 120 minutes

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CREATING PHYSICAL THEATRE

An inspiring guide to some of the ideas, strategies and methods that can be used in both professional and educational contexts to add physical dimensions to performance.

Disc 1 includes interviews, rehearsal footage, demonstrations and performances from some of the world's best and most physical practitioners. It provides examples of games, strategies and methods used to generate physical action and looks at the relationship between text and movement. It also explores the choreographing and scoring of physical action, including proxemics and sequencing.

Disc 2 contains numerous workshop examples showing ideas and techniques that can be used to encourage students to add physicality to their performance. It also contains examples of student work.

2 DVDs / 2006 / 90 minutes

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DEVISING WORK

An invaluable and inspirational two-disc guide to the process of creating an original piece of drama. Ways of getting started are evaluated and professional practitioners introduce the strategies they use to generate ideas, movement and text.

Disc 1 Filmed with companies from three continents, this disc contains a feature film's worth of edited interviews, demonstrations, rehearsal footage and performance outcome clips from some of the world's most creative devisers - Goat Island (US), Forced Entertainment (UK), Ushio Amagatsu/Sankai Juku (Japan). The practitioners explain the ideas that influence and inform their work, how they start a piece - including research strategies and sourcing "raw ingredients"; games and other ways of generating movement and text and how they refine and structure their material.

Disc 2 provides extensive teaching resources including how to manage the conceptual process. It contains almost limitless ideas, strategies and materials to help devisors, including: video examples of student work informed by some of the practitioners on disc 1, specially commissioned copyright free "music to devise by", materials from Goat Island/Forced Entertainment and an introduction to the Great Devisers Great Devising Project - an online collaboration in which students are invited to upload performative and other responses to materials created by leading international practitioners.

2 DVDs / 2006 / 100 minutes

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ENSEMBLE BUILDING

Filmed over a two day workshop, this double DVD set shows a wealth of examples of ideas, games and methods which can be used to engage students, helping them overcome inhibitions, build trust and improve communication. Included are interviews and examples of work from some of the world's leading theatre practitioners. The second disc contains additional teachers' resources including a trouble shooting guide and suggested student activities.

2 DVDs / 2006 / 100 minutes

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UNARMED STAGE COMBAT 1: LEARNING THE BASICS

Great for beginners, drama teachers, play directors and drama camps. This DVD includes instruction in pushes, pulls, knaps, slaps, punches and falls, plus fighting distance, eye contact tips, stance and balance. Tips are also included for teachers plus sections on staging and rehearsing fights.

DVD / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 44 minutes

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MIME OVER MATTER

Now you can include a "mime" unit in your drama class or drama club. JodiRae Lynn, performer and mime instructor, can lead one person or a full class through these easy to follow mime exercises and mime illusions. Subjects covered include introduction to mime, exaggerated action, sections of the body, the lean, inclinations, walk 1 & 2, rotations, the sit, the wall, breaking down movement, the rope, creating a mime piece and the robot. Designed specifically as a student participation video that will encourage creativity.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 101 minutes

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ASPECTS OF 18TH CENTURY COMEDY: CONGREVE/MARIVAUX

Congreve and Marivaux benefited from an unbroken acting tradition that began with Moliere and his troupe. George Devine, of England's Royal Court Theatre, directs Congreve's The Way of the World. Robert Manuel, of the Comedie Francaise, directs the actors in Marivaux's The False Confessions.

DVD (Color) / 12 minutes

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EURIPIDES' LIFE AND TIMES: THE TROJAN WOMEN

Euripides is the most modern of Greek dramatists, examining issues, which are still important today: women's status in society, the rights of minorities and the abominations of war. The film traces the development of the Greek theatre, explores daily life in Athens, and links the atrocities of warring Athens with Euripides' great tragedy, The Trojan Women.

DVD (Color)

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GERMAN THEATRE: BRECHT & SCHILLER

Bertolt Brecht's plays and his Berliner Ensemble are two of the most provocative theatrical manifestations of the 20th Century. Gert Weymann and Willi Schmidt, as directors of Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan and Sciller's Love and Intrigue, reveal styles specific to 20th Century German theatre. The scenes from the two plays illustrate how strikingly inter-related is the dramaturgy of the two playwrights.

DVD (Color) / 16 minutes

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PARABLES OF POWER, PT. II: MARLOWE'S EDWARD II

Machiavelli continues his commentary from Parables, Part One, speaking about a king's loss of power. Marlowe knew Machiavelli's writings and drew from them for his play Edward II. Scenes from the drama depict how Edward II and the various factions in his court struggle to control the throne.

DVD (Color) / 38 minutes

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ROMAN COMEDY, PT. I: PLAUTUS/SHAKESPEARE

Down through the ages, playwrights of comedy were indebted to the Roman master of farce and comedy, Plautus. Chief among them was William Shakespeare, whose grammar school education was grounded in the plays of Plautus. Scenes from Plautus' Amphitryon are contrasted with Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors, showing how the Roman comedy became, in part, the catalyst for Shakespeare's popular play. The film demonstrates the power of the large, oversized Roman masks used in Plautus' theatre. On location footage places Plautus in the Rome of his day.

DVD (Color)

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ROMAN COMEDY, PT. II: TERENCE/MOLIERE

The plays of Terence, writer of Roman High Comedy, reflect family relationships and the daily life of a Rome that was to become a world empire. Moliere, like countless playwrights since, knew, admires, and emulated the sophisticated plots devised by Terence. The Roman playwright's Phormio became the launching pad for Moliere's Scapin. Scenes in the film contrast one play with the other.

DVD (Color) / 24 minutes

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SANSKRIT DRAMA

World-famous dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai recreates the classical Indian dance forms of the Sanskrit Theatre. Scenes from The Vision of Vasavadatta, by Bhasa, introduces the viewer to Indian manners, movements, "mudras," costuming and makeup.

DVD (Color) / 14 minutes

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SHAKESPEARE AND WEBSTER

The Jacobean Age was fraught with anxiety: man's doubts about the world, the after-world, and his place in them. The drama of the period is revealed in this film through scenes from Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.

DVD (Color) / 33 minutes

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