Chapter 9
Creating interactional bonds during
theatrical rehearsals
An interactional approach of the
documentary method of interpretation
The process of embodying a
theatrical script for organizing the performance
of an interaction among fictional characters and
displaying interactional bonds on stage depends on
the way the participants (the director and the
actors) interpret the script.
Interpreting the script means for them that each
line of the script becomes an underlying pattern
to which extra elements (embodied behaviors,
broader contextual elements) can be connected in
order to build the multimodal performances of
interactional bonds. In this paper I focus on how
participants build two different interpretations
of the same segment of the script, building two
kinds of interactional bonds among addressed and
un-addressed recipients. The goal of this paper is
to understand how the actors embody the
script and create the performance
of interactional bonds by relying on the
script as an underlying pattern.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Interactional bonds
- 1.2Methodology of analysis
- 1.3Data and setting
- 1.4The spatial organization of the theatrical
rehearsal: Performing, observing and
correcting
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2.The actors’ performance
- 2.1Situation of the play at the beginning of
Extract 1
- Extract 1 (IRE is standing on the left
side of im. 1 and sitting on the right side of
im. 2; JER is sitting in bed on im. 1 and 2)
- 2.2Interpreting and embodying the
script
- 2.3Establishing interactional bonds through
bodily postures and touch
- 3.The director’s correction
- 3.1Explaining the problem
- 3.2Providing a new context
- 3.3A new way of performing the same
segment
- 3.4Miming the new performance
- 4.Conclusion
-
Note
-
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