Features of the Directing Department Studies. Some Exercises for the First Year Acting Training

Abstract

The article reviews some tendencies of the modern theatre development as well as some problems concerning the education of actors and stage directors together. There are a lot of students who have already studied in other theatrical institutions for a year or more (and sometimes even have graduated) studying in the acting and directing department. For those students, the coming back to the school basis runs risks to become boring, which will inevitably affect the entire group. In this regard, there are a number of exercises proposed; the exercises are mainly organized in game form, placing emphasis on the presence of acting personality in the game, and stimulate the personality in every possible way.