Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 10:58:14 -0400
From: David Syrotiak <syrotiak-AT-sover.net>
Subject: PUPT: Here and There (I never remember..)





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> I heard, some actors, who was trying to play Faust and some strange things
> was happeningin in their own lifes. Something was coded in this masterpiece
> by an author, and when you trying to go deep it to it, seems something is
> trying to charge you for this interruption, strange accidents occured in
> actors life, some of them even fatal.
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> I have heard the same things about the theatres who are playing Mcbeth or
> those plays with incantations like that.....the theatre was caught on fire,
> the actor who played the title role hurt....

it is probably a eastern European superstition, or the actors there are playing
with so much believe (well we all learn about Stanislavski there) that it is
really attracting those things.

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> 20 years ago me and my classmates  graduate from the Lithuanian art
> university and we start to work in this theatre as an actors. No one of us
> are responsible to create a puppets or music. We have a stage director and
> we only get a parts in the plays, to act with any kind of puppets needed ,
> and we get a monthly salary plus some commisions for each performance we
> play. All plays are picked by a stage director and  a stage directors are
> picked by  the board of our theatre. And after only he is choosing an actors
> to play,is responsible for all decissions,puppets, and decorations. Most of
> the time the music is created by a composer.
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> I know exactly what are you talking about, I graduated from Theatre and Film
> Academy in Bucharest, and we went through Obrastov and Stanislavski, and in
> the theatre is the same rutine. The director is the one who decides
> everything, the actor just has to play, which is very comfortable in a way.

There a puppeteer has more fame than here, and you can go free in whatever
theatre you want to see a play.
Here on the other hand you have more liberty to create, actually in some limits
(see the long time ago thread about "Punch and Judy")
In Europe if you see a drunk on stage that is seen as funny, here will be a big
offense, so you have to avoid those types of characters.
Here if you want to you can be your own everything (director, composer,
puppeteer) as long as you CAN do it.
You do get some credit from the beginning, and you keep it if you are good, in
Bucharest at least, you have to prove that you are good and then get some
credit.
These are my own thoughts, and I had jumped in because I am familiar with what I
have read in Onute's e mail.


               Mariana Palade Syrotiak

PS. Onute, if you won't sent photos on the list, would you mind send some to me?

I am quite interested. Thank you!






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