Photo by Ken Reynolds from Yuri Butusov’s production of The Seagull
Analysis Through Action
for Actors & Directors
Workshop
A five day workshop on Analysis through Action (aka Active Analysis) led by Professor David Chambers (Yale University). This a vigorous rehearsal technique drawn from Stanislavsky’s little-known final experiments that fuses intense personal text analysis with spontaneous physical actions on the floor with no scripts. Études, or structured improvisations, allow actors to grasp subtext, and then text, on their feet first through the body and then through paraphrase.
During the five days, participants will explore scenes and events from Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard through a series of text actions and Études drawn from Chambers’ pioneering research, alongside learning about the development of this methodology in contemporary acting and directing practice.
About
David Chambers (he/him) is a director, writer, and producer of theatre and opera. His work has been seen in New York from basements to Broadway to BAM, in theatres throughout the US, as well as Europe, Russia, and Asia. He taught acting and directing at the Yale School of Drama for three decades. Since then he has been on the faculties of The New School for Drama, The Stella Adler Studio, and Harvard University. He currently teaches in the department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Yale University, USA. His most recent publication, Analysis Through Action for Actors and Directors: From Stanislavsky to Contemporary Performance (2024), is available from Routledge.
→ Join us on Fri 7 June for the book launch of David Chambers’s new book Analysis Through Action for Actors and Directors: From Stanislavsky to Contemporary Performance
More information here.
03/06
07/06
