PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Musilová, Martina
TI  - Acting for Yourself in a Given Situation. Vyskočil's Dialogical Negotiations with an Inner Partner as an Intersection of the Influences of K. S. Stanislavsky and J. L. Moreno
DP  - 2024 Dec 1
TA  - ArteActa
VI  - 7
IP  - 2
IS  - 25711695
AB  - The study focuses on the phenomenon of the actor's existence on stage for himself, as explored and developed by the actor, teacher, writer, and psychologist Ivan Vyskočil in the discipline of dialogical acting with the inner partner in the 1970s and 1980s. Vyskočil's acting pedagogy combines the basic elements of Stanislavsky's system (public solitude; acting in given circumstances) and Jacob Levy Moreno's psychodrama, to which he was introduced during his studies of psychology in the 1950s. In addition to Moreno's notion of spontaneity, Vyskočil was inspired by different variants of enactment, acting out, and abreaction. Unlike Moreno, he did not work with them therapeutically but created his unique concepts of authorial acting and open dramatic play. The study also provides an overview of the Czechoslovak reception of Moreno's psychodrama in the postwar period (1949-1968).