Our Lives Matter S1E24:  The First 24 Centuries of Theatre

Episode 24 May 09, 2024 00:13:24
Our Lives Matter S1E24:  The First 24 Centuries of Theatre
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Our Lives Matter S1E24:  The First 24 Centuries of Theatre

May 09 2024 | 00:13:24

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Show Notes

Theatre turns human behavior into an art.  But people are very perceptive of human behavior.  We have highly developed instincts for interpreting why people do the things they do.  For actors to produce realistic human behavior onstage is very complicated.  Theatre artists struggled with that problem for about 2,400 years.  They found many ways to make human behavior interesting, but all of them fell short of consistent realism.   In the 1890s Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor and director, finally solved that problem.  His discoveries elevated the art of theatre to a new level.  Consistent realism lets actors play characters…

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