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Theatre as a Means to Fight Egoism

Theatre as a Means to Fight Egoism

Let’s talk about the role of acting in the method of integral upbringing. You often say that a child, like any person, should learn to change himself, to develop the ability to work above his states...

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We Are Always on Stage

Of course, we are all acting. After all, we don’t know how to behave. Animals behave naturally. They don’t have feelings of shame or envy. True, they do experience biological envy, if you can call an animal’s emotions that. This feeling they have is determined by biological factors. Animals behave however Nature has programmed them to behave...

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Acting Skills

One more special quality of acting is that when a person comes close to being in contact with the environment, he “comes out” of his current problems and qualities...

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Collective Games with Egoism

Everything in the work of an actor is aimed at giving a person the ability to become included in others, to transcend his egoism...

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The Right Age for Studying Acting

When a person creates a certain new facet within himself, he discovers how multi-faceted he is. How many facets can there be in a person? And at what age can this be taught to a child?..

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Not Playing Fairy Tales, But Real Life

Which boundaries can we delineate here? Can children play animals or plants? Or should they only play people?..

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Becoming Objective through Acting

I did not study the basics of acting, but everything in an actor’s work is aimed toward creating the right communication. This is natural. When we play the roles of our friends, we understand each other better and as a result, the amount of conflicts immediately drops. Statistics show this as well. A person starts to judge everyone, including himself and his friend. Besides his own role, he can learn one more role and live out both. He can become his own judge, or his friend’s advocate. These persona become totally equal! By acting, a person becomes objective...

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From an Amorphous “I” to a Reliable “We”

And what is our real “I”?..

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Why Theatre Shows Were Ridiculed

If acting is so important for man’s development, why was it so ridiculed and even persecuted for so many centuries? Some people were even burned at the stake for it...

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Unity Brings People to the “Human” Level

The constant act really does engross an actor. This brings him great pleasure, but at the same time, an agonizing feeling arises where you lose your self. How can one get rid of it?..

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The Actor Becomes the Stage Director

When a person becomes a professional actor and becomes absorbed in the new way of life, he begins to fear many things. The image of Mephistopheles (the devil) immediately emerges in his subconscious. Why does this fear emerge?..

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Not All the Roles Must Be Played

Actors don’t like to play psychologically unstable people or to experience death on stage. When working with children, how can we define the boundaries of which roles are admissible?..

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The Most Intense Sensations Come from a Deficiency

I find it much more interesting to play negative characters. They touch me more, while the positive ones turn out boring. Since these roles influence us so much, how should we treat them?..

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The Goal: Integral Humanity

We scrupulously analyze any situation or any character, then act them out and experience them, and they remain in a person. Tens or perhaps hundreds of such characters comprise the communicative mechanism that enables a person to connect to the world. A person becomes multi-faceted and multi-layered in his understanding of any person, and can therefore make contact with anyone...

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