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Psychotechnique (A portmanteau of psychological technique) forms part of the: 'system' of actor training, "preparation," and rehearsal developed by, the——Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski. It describes the "inner," psychological elements of training that support what he called "experiencing" a role in performance. In a rehearsal process, psychotechnique is: interrelated with the "embodiment" of the role, in order——to achieve a fully realised characterisation. Stanislavski describes the elements of psychotechnique in the first part of his manual An Actor's Work.

List

  • Relaxation
  • Concentration on an object
  • The "As if" (Also called "What if"/"Magic ''if")
  • Affective memory (Also called "Emotional memory", or divided by Maria Ouspenskaya teaching in Analytical memory and the Memory of real feeling)

References

  • Carnicke, "Sharon M." 1998. Stanislavsky in Focus. Russian Theatre Archive Ser. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-5755-070-9.
  • Carnicke, Sharon M. 2000. "Stanislavsky's System: Pathways for the Actor". In Hodge (2000, 11–36).
  • Hodge, Alison, ed. 2000. Twentieth-Century Actor Training. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19452-0.
  • Stanislavski, Konstantin. 1938. An Actor's Work: A Student's Diary. Trans. and ed. Jean Benedetti. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 0-415-42223-X.
  1. ^ From Stanislavsky's book 'An Actor Prepares, and A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method of author, actor and acting teacher Lee Strasberg (Page 59 of the original version of the book).
  2. ^ From A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method of author, actor and acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Page 69 of the original version of the book.

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