2012年2月28日火曜日

The Way of Practices of Actors/actresses

I will introduce the way of practice which actors or actresses usually do. There are many people who want to become an actor or actress, and they always train their own body.Here, these are some kinds of  training.
First, it is important to realize your own attitude, more closely, the peculiarity of your body. Why does it need? Because you are different from your role, so you have to remove moving yourself possibly. It is effective to develop your muscles and to do stretching to correct your peculiarity, such as push-up, sit-ups.  If you repeat doing exercises, you will sustain correct attitude.
One more important thing is utterance. Many actors do voice exercises every day. The point which you utter loud and clearly voice is breathing by stomach. Do so, and you  can take in more air. Moreover, it is also important to relax your body.
There are many other things to practice actor's skill. If you have an interest, let's try.

2012年2月21日火曜日

The famous stage directors in Japan

Stage directors are very important in creating stage. They  decide their stage's line, so the same stage becomes different when a stage director is different. A good example is "Willam Shakespeare." His play is not changing, but many stage directors use his play, and all of their stages have different atomosphere.
Here, I explain some famous stage directors in Japan.

Yukio Ninagawa…He is the one of stage directors who represent Japan. He is from Saitama. When he was  young, he belonged to "Gekidan Seihai," as an actor. However, He realized that he fit a stage director. Then, he started as a atage director. He produced some Shakespeare's play, such as "Hamlet ""Romeo and Juliet" and so on. Plus, he is known as a very strict stage director.

Kouhei Tsuka…He is a Japanese writer, and stage director. Heis from Korea. He placed "Tsukakouhei theatre company" and made a boom of stage from 1970 to 1980. He produced actors by"kuchidate", his unique way to produce. It is  that he thinks actors' part imprompuly.He died in 2010, July 10th.

2012年2月7日火曜日

The Famous Writer in Japan

Writer, it is the base of  stages. If there were no script, stages would not be.  I will introduce some famous writer in Japan. They wrote many scripts and they are often charge of stage directer, too.

Hisashi Inoue(1934~2010)He is a Japanese writer, novelist, and writer of broadcast.  He graduated from Sophia University, and then he worked as  a writer of broadcast. He wrote "Hyokkori-Hyoutanzima," it is one of his masterpieces. In 1984, he set up "Komatsuza," a theatrical company. He wrote "Shakespeare on Tenpo 12," "Chichitokuraseba,"and so on. Moreover, he received so many prize.  Plus, he was so slow to complete his pieces. So, some stages were canceled because of unfinished script!

Hideki Noda(1995~) He is an acclaimed Japanese actor, playwright and theater director who has written and directed more than forty plays in Japan, as well as working in foerien countries, bringing Japanese script. He is from Nagasaki. He attended Tokyo University to study law, but he dropped out after a time. In 1976, he set up  a theatrical company"Yumenoyuuminsya." Though this company was collapsed, he set up a new theatrical company "Noda-MAP." His pieces are individual at the point "Word Play" and "remake of classic stage drama." Moreover, he lost his light eye because of desease. Then, he wrote "Right-Eye," it is based on his real experience.