Documentary Theater Techniques

At the beginning of the 21st century, the techniques of auto-painting and verbatim for reproducing documentary works in the theater became popular. These techniques help both the director and the actors to understand the topic, the person (their hero), and get to know themselves in the process, which helps them to narrate as vividly and plausibly as possible.

Automatic writing is a technique of self-discovery and finding answers to interesting questions, in which you write down your thoughts on paper directly through your subconscious mind, bypassing logical thinking and internal criticism.

Verbatim is a technique of documentary theater, the performances of which are based on verbatim reproduction of direct speech of people.

Aims and objectives of the course:

The goal: to use techniques to understand and get to know yourself, resolve internal conflicts and, in the process, independently prepare a monologue for the graduation performance.

The task: to master the technique of auto-writing, to learn how to decipher your letters and explain them, respectively, to understand your condition. Learn how to adapt a text from a logically incoherent one into a real literary text (monologue).

Audience category:

• Boys and girls 15-17 years old.
• Who likes to write and understand what is written.
• Who is tired of the daily routine and does not know how to relax and sort themselves out.
• Who is interested in learning a new method of working with texts and monologues?
• Who wants to try screenwriting.
• Who wants to choose acting as their profession.
• Who has completed the Acting course and wants to continue to get to know themselves.
• Who doesn't know anything about acting and wants to see a modern technique of psychotherapy and work on the role.

What will the course provide:

• relaxation skills;
• Understanding yourself;
• broadening your horizons;
• an opportunity to look at the profession from a different angle;
• writing your own monologue, reading it.

You will learn:

• Sort out your own thoughts.
• Understand yourself.
• See your problems and solve them.
• Adapt the text into a readable literary one.
• Write and read your own monologues.
• You will understand the specifics of working with the hero and his text.