ABSTRACT

In November 2022, The S Word symposium was hosted at DAMU, Prague, under the title 'Stanislavsky's Last Words'. Bella Merlin conducted a practical workshop on the 'constant state of inner improvisation' that underpins Stanislavsky's final rehearsal practice, Active Analysis, along with the vital role of 'dynamic listening' between actors. This paper is an account of that workshop, writing in an autoethnographic style and taking the reader through the improvisations and exercises as if present at the workshop. Merlin notes her training in Active Analysis at the State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow, in the early 1990s and her book Beyond Stanislavsky: The Psycho-Physical Approach to Acting (NHB 2001) as arguably the first hands-on account of Active Analysis in the UK. The 'line of thought' (discovered through textual analysis) and the 'line of action' (discovered through improvisations) link together to create a production through the process of Active Analysis. Stanislavsky's tools of the 'six fundamental questions', 'grasp', 'objectives' (or problems and tasks), and the essential feeling of 'now, today, here' as the raw material for creating roles are explored, along with identifying the scene's main 'event' and uncovering a simple 'score of physical actions'. The dramatic dialogue used is an open scene from Dave Kost's Books of Sides II (Routledge 2017). The overarching tool for the workshop is obshcheniye: community or 'communion'.

摘要

2022 年 11 月，S Word 研讨会在布拉格 DAMU 举办，主题为“斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基的遗言”。贝拉·梅林 (Bella Merlin) 举办了一场关于“内心即兴创作的持续状态”的实践研讨会，该研讨会是斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基最后一次排练练习“主动分析”的基础，以及演员之间“动态聆听”的重要作用。这篇论文是对那个研讨会的描述，以民族志的风格写作，并带领读者通过即兴创作和练习，就像在研讨会上一样。Merlin 提到她在 1990 年代初期在莫斯科国立电影学院接受的主动分析培训以及她的书《超越斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基：表演的心理-生理方法》(NHB 2001) 可以说是英国主动分析的第一个实践说明。“思想路线”（通过文本分析发现）和“行动路线”（通过即兴创作发现）联系在一起，通过积极分析的过程创造出一个作品。探索斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基的“六个基本问题”、“把握”、“目标”（或问题和任务）工具，以及“现在、今天、这里”的基本感觉作为创建角色的原材料，并确定场景的主要“事件”并揭示一个简单的“身体动作分数”。使用的戏剧性对话是 Dave Kost 的Books of Sides II（Routledge 2017）中的一个开放场景。