Practitioner Rehearsal Techniques

System:

• Emotion memory
• Method of physical actions
• Subtext
• Given circumstances
• Magic if
• Objective/super-objective
• Through line

Rehearsal techniques:

• Inner thoughts/Though tracking
• Hot-seating
• Temporal division - breaking down scene into objectives and emotions
• Super-objectives
• What happened before?
• Inner and Outer tempo
• Improvisation

Style:

• Epic theatre
• Distancing audience

Rehearsal techniques:        (Brechtian style)

• Narrator
• Coming out of character
• Speak stage directions
• Swap roles
• Direct address

Pinteresque:

• Implications of threat
• Colloquial language
• Apparant trivality
• Long pauses/Pinter pause/pinter silence
• Comedy of Menace

Rehearsal techniques:

• Eye contact
• 3 words
• Pause/Go
• Domination/Submission

Style:

• Physical threatre
• Movement
• Design
• Music
• Text

Rehearsal techniques:

• Round-by-through
• Hymns hands
• Lifts
• The quad
• Partner guiding
• Hugs
• Trust fall
• Shoal
• Chair duets
• Do nothing

Theatre of Cruelty:

• Assualting audiences senses
• Audience engulfed by spectacle 
• Suffering essential to existance

Rehearsal techniques:        (Artaudian style)

• Vampire
• Sounds instead of words/Soundscape
• Sequencing
• Choral repititon