Theatre Playground: the game as a rehearsal process methodology

Author(s)

Ramiro Bicca da Silveira

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-03-26

Examining board members

Elisabeth Silva Lopes; Ines Alcaraz Marocco; José Batista Dal Farra Martins; Cassiano Sydow Quilici; Maria Thais Lima Santos

• Advisor: Elisabeth Silva Lopes

Abstract

The present research looks upon an original methodology for rehearsal process called Theatre Playground. In it the actors are put in a creative environment (Playground), built in order to establish a playfulness state and through it find the relationships and right tune needed to the performance. From the study of practical examples, specific procedures on directing shows and conducting theatre groups are taken as possibilities for training theatre actors and directors. The main aim for this thesis is verify the resonance of a practical approach on techniques related to theatre games, mainly according to the vision of Phillippe Gaulier, Luke Dixon, Anne Bogart and Jacques Lecoq. Also getting deep on the foundations that will allow this game to happen, based mainly on Meyerhold, Barba, Grotowski, Stanislávski and Vakhtangov. And perceiving on which level a group of theatre work, organized under specific ludic and psychophysics premises, can soften the ruptures found in a rehearsal process, specially when the show needs to find the fixed forms and the impro has to give place to the final movements on stage (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/00654-2 - Playground Theatre - The Theatre Games Building a Rehearsal Process.
• Grantee: Ramiro Bicca da Silveira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate