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    Steven Berkoff

    British actor, playwright, author and director

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  2. Jan 31, 2022 · What are Steven Berkoff's techniques? Berkoff frequently uses physical theater techniques such as mime, exaggerated movement, and improvisation. He uses stylized movement from performers, including slow motion and robotic gestures, dramatic facial expressions, and vocal work.

  3. Steven Berkoff (born Leslie Steven Berks; 3 August 1937) is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. As a theatre maker he is recognised for staging work with a heightened performance style eponymously known as "Berkovian theatre", [2] which combines elements of physical theatre , total theatre and ...

  4. Date: 1937-present. Broad approach: Expressionism. and. physical theatre. Example productions: Metamorphosis, East, Messiah. Key facts: Berkoff is an English actor, director and playwright. he...

  5. His physical, exaggerated style of theatre is both popular and controversial, defying the norms of naturalistic theatre. In his productions East and West, Berkoff used the Shakespearean style of language to create an complexity but pairing it with “ low ” cockney slang and swearing.

  6. Apr 29, 2013 · Steven Berkoff is one of the most influential figures in the world of theatre and film, both as an actor and as a pioneering writer and director, spearheading the conception of ‘total theatre’- a method and style that, whilst avant-garde and shocking twenty years ago, is now widely mimicked in both professional and amateur theatre.

  7. Background. ‘If I have a trademark style, I suppose it’s about physicality, a simplicity of communication both orally and physically. That’s very important’ - Steven Berkoff. Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney, London in 1937, and is still an energised actor, playwright and director.

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  8. Steven Berkoff plays and his work in theatre, Information about Salome, Oedipus, Decadence, East, Shakespeare's Villians, Metamorphosis Messiah & Coriolanus. including links to buy direct from Steven's offical shop.