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The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School. episodes
- Gielgud’s response to An Actor Prepares. A bonus edition.
In which we read John Gielgud’s views on Stanislavsky. From January 1937.
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12 min - Hiding in plain sight. Stanislavsky in translation part II.
This episode includes an extract from Vladimir Mirodan’s excellent paper The first class: Harold Lang and the beginnings of Stanislavskian teaching in the British conservatoire.
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49 min - Stanislavsky and Benedetti : A history of the Hapgood translation.
In which we discuss Jean Benedetti; Rose Bruford and Lamda’s recent NSS results and why Stanislavsky really wrote his books.
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1 hr 7 min - Stanislavsky and Shakespeare (and Saint Denis).
In which we read Saint Denis’ essay on the application of the Stanislavsky approach, and it’s American interpretation as the method, to the plays of Shakespeare…and perhaps understand something about the ideas underpinning the teaching at the LTS and the Old Vic School. The image is of Susanne Bing as Viola.
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36 min - 49 min
- Ailun Zhou : Huang Zuolin at The London Theatre Studio.
In which a special guest tells us the story of how a young Chinese Couple became amongst the tiny number of people who studied at the London Theatre Studio in Islington just before the outbreak of the Second World War and of how they brought the ideas and pedagogy of Copeau and Suzanne Bing to the People’s Republic of China.
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33 min - The London Theatre Studio. 1936 - 1939.
In which we look to understand something about the nature of the London Theatre Studio the school founded by Michel Saint Denis in a disused Methodist Chapel in Islington in 1936.
Cover picture is of a woolwork by Merula Salaman an actor at the LTS.
Sophie Jump's PhD can be found here : https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9194/1/Sophie%20Jump%20PhD%20thesis%20FINAL%2027%20Jan%2016.pdfSupport the show
58 min - Oliver Neville and the training of the actor at Rada and Julliard in 1991.
In Memoriam Oliver Neville 1929 - 2021. Rada's Principal from 1984 to 1993.
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38 min - In which Lamda is awarded degree awarding powers and we read a letter from a listener.
The image is of candidates for the Academy of Dramatic Art auditioning in 1911.
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58 min - Tanmay Dhanania. An international student at Rada.
Tanmay Dhanania is an actor. He studied Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley and then trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He has acted in UK tv shows like New Tricks for the BBC, Indian Summers for Channel 4 and The Durrells in Corfu for itv. He has also acted in and produced independent films like Brahman Naman which premiered in competition at Sundance 2016 and became India's first Netflix Original and Garbage which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2018 and also was acquired by Netflix. Tanmay acted in and produced the film Cat Sticks which won the Jury Award at the Slamdance Film Festival 2019 and is currently on MUBI. Tanmay is also a theatre maker and artist and has acted in stage productions and taught theatre around the world. He has a green belt in Goju Ryu karate, and loves animals, travelling and playing the flute.
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1 hr 18 min
About The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School.
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An investigation into the development and trajectory of actor training in the United Kingdom.