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Apr 1, 2021 · 1 Apr. Written By Molly Coffey. If what defines theatre is the engagement of the imagination of the audience, then how can theatre practitioners activate and enhance that engagement so that audiences move from passive spectators to active participants in the making of theatre?
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Apr 29, 2013 · Steven Berkoff: An Interview. 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 ...
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Leslie Steven Berks is a British author, actor, and theater director born on 3 August 1937 in Stepney, London, England, UK. Berkoff went to Raine's Foundation Grammar School from 1948 to 1950. After that, he attended Hackney Downs School, the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in 1958, and L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in 1965...
Berkoff is best known for his portrayal of villainous characters such as General Orlov in the film Octopussy (1983), Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Lt. Col. Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), and Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-seriesWar and Remembrance from 1988 to 1989. Besides his acting career, Berkoff is also known as a t...
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. In addition, Berkoff believes that actors' bodies should tell the story rather than relying on sets. As a resul...
As a theatre maker he is recognised for staging work with a heightened performance style eponymously known as "Berkovian theatre", which combines elements of physical theatre, total theatre and expressionism.
Sep 9, 2015 · Ahead of JW3’s Kafka Festival, actor, director, playwright and author Steven Berkoff spoke to David Ellis about the influence of Kafka's Metamorphasis, England's "imbecilic" laws and what he's ...
Writer, theatre director and actor Steven Berkoff was born in 1937, in Stepney, East London. Educated at the Raines Foundation Grammar School, he trained to be an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy in London, and later in Paris. In 1968, after working in repertory theatre, he founded the London Theatre Group, working with a group of actors to ...
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Berkoff is his own worst enemy. Someone who makes enemies of his peers and of the press and even at times of his public. He's about making work, not making friends. Of playwrights he rails that ‘there's a lack of any real expression of passion or love. Plays are filled with bitching and hate. It's all about spew.
