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My Artaud Files - Scroll down for Berkoff

Stan/Artaud & Marat/Sade Scheme,
Unit 5 Edexcel

Handout Stanislavsky
Handout Nat vs Realism
Handout on Marat/Sade
Handout on Artaud
Artaud Soundscapes Lesson
Marat/Sade Opening Scenes

My Groups Artaud Files


Artaud Resources

Suitable Plays for Artaudian Style Drama:

  • 4.48 Psychosis - Sarah Kane
  • Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff
  • Marat Sade - Peter Weiss
  • The Plague Of Innocence - Noel Greig
  • Road - Jim Cartwright
  • The Dolls House - Henrik Ibsen (Done in an abstract way using different
    sides of Nora's personality with all students playing dolls to represent
    Nora - e.g: Strong side to her personaility = action man,
    rag doll = childlike side, Barbie doll = Flirty Nora)

    • Artaud Links

    iTheatre Studies
    A wonderful multimedia resource and directory for Theatre Studies
    students, focusing on Artaud, Stanislavski and Brecht

    My Brecht and Artaud Page
    Antonin Artaud
    Artaud History/Bio
    Artaud - Dramaworks


    Stephen Berkoff

    Style:
    Emphasis on physicality and physical theatre.
    Uses Lecoq's theories such as seven levels of tension
    Focuses on 'Total Theatre', which seeks to attract an almost spiritual
    response from the audience using all the resources of theatre including
    athletic actors.

    Things to work on in lessons:

    Character work to the extreme. Sterotypes for characters. Status, Seven Levels of Tension,
    Use of slow motion and exaggerated movement, such as a slow motion race.

    Scripts to use:
     Metamorphosis and The Trial by Berkoff or Berkoff play
    Any by Sarah Kane
    Road by Jim Cartwright

    Links and Internet Lesson Plans

    Did a quick search for lesson plans:
    Berkoff/Physical Theatre Lesson Plan from TES contributer <--- CLICK
    looks like an excellent lesson plan just take away the gestus bit which is Brechtian.

    Ken Taylors Schemes
    - an excellent East by Berkoff scheme here written by Ema Bilgora