I. Language focus

Before you see the film look at a number of important vocabu­lary items which are relevant to the topic. Explain the meanings of the more difficult words and phrases:

1. to be internationally acclaimed (as)

2. to move

3. to be hailed

4. to change tag

5. to introduce a startling new wave

6. to be dedicated (to)

7. a multiracional group of actors/players

8. to share a quest

9. to redefine a language of theatre

10. to assimilate the vocabulary of foreign theatrical traditions

11. to communicate more directly with the audiences

12. one's output

13. enormous

14. key productions

15. to chart one's career

16. (to be) ten years in the making

17. to be enormously encouraged by smb.

18. to become more obsessively interested (in)

19. professional film directing

20. to be sent down

21. to be blocked

22. to embark (upon);

23. undaunted

24. to become an instant «core celebre»

25. a stunning production

26. pictorial

27. consumptive beauty

28. to jump straight into the top of one's profession

29. prodigious

30. to amount to... productions

31. to use every pretext

32. to explore a law of direction

33. to be intuitively drawn (into)

34. to codify

35. an infamously nihilistic interpretation

36. obscene

37. the new orthodox

38. to design a set (for)

39. to educate smb. into one's view

40. rehearsals

41. strenuous energetic group work

42. holy/dead/immediate/vital/engaging theatre

43. a dazzling visual spectacle

44. a guillotine

45. garishness/strange allocation

46. to racket around

47. to be rapidly improvised

48. to take smb out of complacent fantasy world

49. butcher of the age

50. perfectibility

51. sensualist

52. a rough world/a holy world

53. modish/trendy/fashionable

54. exhilarating

55. to release magic

56. indeterminacy/curious childlike charm

57. sacred/profane

58. to have a metaphysical dimension

59. to look natural/artificial

60. to reinnovate

61. technique

62. to use every fibre of the body

63. to express abnormal

64. primeval/brutal/literary naive

65. transparent

66. carpet theatre/carpeture

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