ABSTRACT This paper is based on a lecture/workshop I gave at the S-Word Symposium, held at the University of Malta in April 2019. The original lecture comprised of a PowerPoint presentation, outlining some of the most common problems faced by my BA Hons Acting and Actor Musician students at Rose Bruford College at the beginning of their second year of training. During this initial block of work in semester one they find themselves grappling with a variety of texts written by those playwrights, grouped together by Martin Esslin in his seminal study of 1961, as the key representatives of what he famously termed The Theatre of The Absurd. 1 Opening with an introductory summation of my developing practice at RBC, followed by an outline of some of the theory involved – and some contextual framing relating to the philosophical underpinning that runs through Esslin’s interpretation of these plays 2 – I worked with a trio of Theatre Studies students from the University of Malta, in an attempt to demonstrate some of the key ideas I have been exploring in practice over the past few years. My premise is that, while an attempt to apply certain foundational aspects of Stanislavski’s “system” to these Absurdist texts is clearly problematic – particularly any attempt to create a psychologically coherent through-line-of-action, rooted in a detailed backstory or character biography – other Stanislavskian concepts, such as the magic if for example, when utilized discretely, can still prove useful. Key terminology is written in italics.

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斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基与荒诞剧场

摘要 本文基于我在 2019 年 4 月在马耳他大学举行的 S-Word 研讨会上的演讲/研讨会。原始演讲由 PowerPoint 演示文稿组成，概述了我的荣誉学士学位所面临的一些最常见问题罗斯布鲁福德学院的表演和演员音乐家学生在第二年的培训开始时。在第一学期的这个最初的工作块中，他们发现自己正在努力处理这些剧作家写的各种文本，这些文本由 Martin Esslin 在他 1961 年的开创性研究中组合在一起，作为他著名的“荒诞剧场”的主要代表。1 以我在 RBC 发展实践的介绍性总结开场，接着是一些所涉及的理论大纲——以及一些与贯穿 Esslin 对这些戏剧的解释的哲学基础相关的上下文框架 2——我与来自马耳他大学的三位戏剧研究学生一起工作，试图证明过去几年我一直在实践中探索的一些关键想法。我的前提是，虽然试图将斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基“系统”的某些基本方面应用于这些荒诞主义文本显然是有问题的——特别是任何试图创造一个心理上连贯的行动路线，植根于详细的背景故事或人物传记– 其他斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基的概念，例如魔法，如果单独使用时，仍然可以证明是有用的。关键术语以斜体书写。