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CONTENTS
Footlights is 4-Tel's arts and drama
magazine. Coming up in a moment you
will find:
* THE ELEVENTH HOUR
A look at the Meyerhold method of
acting as displayed in tonight's film
The Extraordinary Adventuqes Of Mr
West In The Land Of The Bolsheviks at
11.00pm
* SHAKESPEARE LIVES
This week's dip into the wgrld of the
bard focuses on Timon of Athens.
Edited by Sophie Walpole
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ELEVENTH HOUR DETAILS FOLLOW ...
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THE ELEVENTH
HOUR
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Mr West
In The Land Of The Bolsheviks is the
somewhat overly descriptive title of
tonight's Eleventh Hour presentatign
at 11.00pm
Rather like its title, the acting in
this 1924 silent movie is also at pains
to emphasise its dramatic content.
It adopts the theatrical method of
acting developed and popularised by
Vladimir Meyerhold.
Unlike his chief protagonist Konstantin
Stanislavsky, who placed importance on
naturalistic approach, Meyerhold
favoured a theatrical approach.
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THE ELEVENTH
HOUR
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Mr West
In The Land Of The Bolsheviks is the
first of two featuqe films depicting
differing styles of acting (next Monday
you can see Bresson's Mouchette).
Lev Kuleshov's film was at its time
innovative, displaying an approach to
acting that placed greater importance
on the stressing of movement and
gesture, as propounded by Meyerhgld.
It represents the culmination of the
efforts of a group of experimental
film-makes (headed by Kuleshov) whose
cooperation led to the formation of the
First Goskino studio.
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THE ELEVENTH
HOUR
The First Goskino studio was hampered
by lack of technical support, props
and even heating, but the enthusiasts
that formed the studio were determined
to make the film.
The result demonstrated a new approach
to film acting, with the stress on
movement and gesture - the so called
'externals' that director Kuleshov
had developed over the years.
Contemporary audiences liked it, and
the Moscow audiences of the 1920s
into helpless laughter. For a review
of The Extraordinary Adventuqes...see
Take Four on page 445.
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SHAKESPEARE LIVES!
TIMON OF ATHENS
The lively and argumentative audience
at London's Roundhouse is back this
Wednesday at 5.30pm to debate and draw
conclusions on Shakespeare's Timon /f
Athens.
The discussion is led by National
Theatre director Michael Bogdanov and
includes contributions from NT actor
Dinsdale Landen and actress Suzanne
Bertish.
The ultimate source of the plot in
Timon Of Athens is the dialogue,
written in Greek by Lucian of Samosata
but the form in which Shakespeare knew
this work in not known.
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TIMON OF ATHENS
Timon Of Athens is basically a domestic
tragedy and the characters, though
various, are quite exact.
The story is timeless and is about
false friendship, betrayal and above
all, the corruptive influence of money.
Though the Elizabethan language may
present something of a barrier, the
themes exhibited in the play are
applicable to modern day.
Through Timon, Shakespeare commented on
the time he lived in. He exposed the
vulgarity, the moral coarseness at a
time when gold could buy anything. Has
much changed?
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TIMON OF ATHENS
There are allusions to Christ's Judas
in the plot of Timon of Athens.
It is the same greed for money that
turns Timon's friends into betrayers
who debase the image of society and
destroy what valid human relationships
exist in the story.
But even though Timon is considered a
noble soul, Shakespeare was unable to
make a hero out of him, like he did
with Lear and MacBeth.
See and hear the discussion of Timon Of
Athens in Shakespeare Lives! on
Wednesday at 5.30pm.
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