ABSTRACT
The purpose of this part of the training is to give the student-actor the ways and means of understanding and assimilating the social and cultural climate of every play, past or present, he will be asked to interpret. Our aim is to nourish the student’s imagination by giving him a sense of the reality of remote periods and by helping him see how different theatrical periods relate to one another historically and aesthetically. Facts should stimulate the student’s imagination to practical action but these facts must always be directly related to the rest of his work at the school.
