Circles Of Attention

Circles Of Attention

Stanislavsky trusted that a performer required a feeling of confinement with a specific end goal to deliver a characterization and stay away from pointless pressure. They expected to focus on themselves. This is the first circle of attention. Stanislavsky alluded to it as Solitude in Public. Past this, the performing artist may, in the 'second circle', be mindful of the character he is tending to and in the 'third circle', whatever is left for the production.

When working in class we performed an exercise where we focused on the circles of attention whilst slowly expanding our circles of attention, this is useful as using different circles of attention on stage to focus the attention on stage. We performed an exercise where they expanded and changed accordingly:

1. Inside the room
2. Outside the room
3. Inside the head of an older person
4. Whole of London
5. Taste/Touch/See/Smell/Hear
6. House/Home

The more circles of attention is the more depth added to piece as when we performed an exercise with a bus stop we had to groups the first having only having one Circe of attention and the second having two and we were able to see that having more added more depth to the character.