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Moscow Art Theatre trip – May 2008
I spent two weeks training at Moscow Art Theatre in late May. The exchange programme between MAT and University of Kent runs each year with up to a dozen students from MAT spending time in the Drama department in Canterbury in early May before an exchange later in the month. Set up by Stanislavski in 1897,…
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My MA thesis: What to do with Gestus Today? Version II
Even when a character behaves by contradictions that’s only because nobody can be identically the same at two unidentical moments. Changes in his exterior continually lead to an inner reshuffling. The continuity of the ego is a myth. A man is an atom that perpetually breaks up and forms anew. We have to show things…
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