SECOND SEMESTER: THREE THEMES AMONG WHICH THE CLASS CHOOSES

• The theater of cruelty by Antonin Artaud: experiment the sacred and metaphysic dimension of the theater
Workshop based on the theater of the cruelty defined in « The theater and its Double ».

• The theater of the Absurd from Ionesco to Beckett: you will combine the funny side and the derision to make a life-saving laugh.
Workshop founded on the plays « La leçon » of Ionesco and « En attendant Godot » by Beckett.

• The dramaturgy and the American technique: Tennessee Williams and the Actors Studio of Lee Strasberg (improvisation, research on the sensorial memory, the character’s past and the psychological acting).
Workshop based on the play « Un tramway nommé désir »