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  • Taylor & Francis Incapacity and Theatricality

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  • Taylor & Francis Acting Auditioning for the 21st Century Tips Trends and Techniques for Digital and New Media

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  • Taylor & Francis Psychology for Actors

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  • Taylor & Francis Konstantin Stanislavsky Routledge Performance Practitioners

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Clowns

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    Book SynopsisClowns: In Conversation is a groundbreaking collection of interviews expanded in this second edition to include over 30 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. These artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, as they explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown's trademark. This new edition has been fully updated and expanded, bringing in Lila Monti, Cristina Marti, Leo Bassi, Danise Payne, Bernice Collins, Ketch,Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Clowns 1. Leo Bassi 2. René Bazinet 3. Shannan Calcutt 4. Angela de Castro 5. Bernice Collins 6. Nina Conti 7. Dimitri 8. Robert Dunn 9. Jango Edwards 10. Avner Eisenberg 11. Aziz Gual 12. Hélène Gustin and Tanja Simma 13. Geoff Hoyle 14. Gardi Hutter 15. Bill Irwin and David Shiner 16. Ketch 17. David Larible 18. Cristina Marti 19. Michelle Matlock 20. Lila Monti 21. Bello Nock 22. Danise Payne 23. Larry and Lorenzo Pisoni 24. Slava Polunin 25. Oleg Popov 26. Nola Rae 27. Peter Shub 28. Misha Usov Reflections 29. Ezra and David in Conversation with Phil Burgers; Appendix of Terms

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Supporting Staged Intimacy

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    Book SynopsisSupporting Staged Intimacy: A Practical Guide for Theatre Creatives, Managers, and Crew examines the relationship between staged intimacy, intimacy direction, and those supporting the process during pre-production, rehearsal, and performance. First, this book addresses challenges and trends in staging intimacy, helping backstage and offstage theatre artists recognize the problematic approaches and culture that led to the emerging field of intimacy direction. This text will then provide tools and recommended practices for supporting the creation and maintaining of staged intimacy, enabling team members to enact contemporary protocols concerning advocacy and agency. Finally, this book will educate and empower readers with the necessary skills to prompt change; by providing modern techniques, essential workplace protocols, and achievable action items, this book will transform the way theatre designers, managers, crew, and other creative team members engageTable of ContentsIntroduction: Intentional beginnings 1. Fundamentals of staged intimacy 2. Creating a culture of consent 3. The pre-production process: Laying the groundwork 4. In rehearsal: Consensual crafting 5. Technical and dress rehearsals: Collaborating with care 6. Running the show: Continuity and closure

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Embodied Playwriting

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    Book SynopsisEmbodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising is the first book to compile new and adapted exercises for teaching playwriting in the classroom, workshop, or studio through the lens of acting and improvisation.The book provides access to the innovative practices developed by seasoned playwriting teachers from around the world who are also actors, improv performers, and theatre directors. Borrowing from the embodied art of acting and the inventive practice of improvisation, the exercises in this book will engage readers in performance-based methods that lead to the creation of fully imagined characters, dynamic relationships, and vivid drama. Step-by-step guidelines for exercises, as well as application and coaching advice, will support successful lesson planning and classroom implementation for playwriting students at all levels, as well as individual study. Readers will also benefit from curation by editors who have experience with high-iTable of ContentsPart 1: Creating Characters 1. The Meet and Greet: Creating Opportunities for Surprise and Discovery 2. Improvising Between the Lines: Enhancing the Script by Embodying Subtext 3. Using Improv to Create Original Plays: Respectfully Writing Diverse Characters 4. Character’s Search for Authenticity: Improvisation for the Revision Process Part 2: Body and Mind 5. The Picture Project: Originating Story through Movement 6. Physical Expressions in Devised Playwriting 7. Active Group Playwriting: Psychodramatic Techniques Adapted for Playmaking Part 3: Playing Games 8. Building the World of the Play Through Collaborative Performance 9. It’s All About Play: Locating the Game in Embodied Playwriting 10. Folkgames as Creative Stimulus for Devising: The Case of Chaskele Part 4: Changemaking 11. ‘Laughter that shatters’: Improv Techniques for Social Justice Comedy Playwriting 12. Writing for Change: Guiding Activist Playwrights in Classrooms and Communities 13. Community-Based Play Creation 14. Writing Climate Justice: Personal Storytelling and Source Material Devising as Embodied Methodology Part 5: Curated Exercises 15. Embodied Playwriting Exercises for Classroom, Workshop, and Studio: Skill-Building and Content Generation 16. Embodied Playwriting Exercises for Classroom, Workshop, and Studio: The Revision Process

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Stanislavsky and Pedagogy

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    Book SynopsisStanislavsky and Pedagogy explores current thinking around the pedagogical implications of Stanislavsky's work. The volume depicts the voices of a number of practitioners, teachers, and scholars who are themselves journeying with Stanislavsky, and who in his work find a potent instigator for their own pedagogical practice and study. This book outlines instances in which updated interpretations of Stanislavsky's pedagogy are adapted to cater for contemporary needs and scenarios. These include the theatre industry, new digital technologies, the need to develop playfulness, application to a broad repertoire, performance as pedagogy, university managerialism, and interdisciplinary crossovers with dance and opera. The pedagogies that emerge from these case-studies are marked by fluidity and non-fixity and help to underscore the malleability of Stanislavsky's system.Stanislavsky And... is a series of multi-perspectival collections that bring the enduring legaTable of ContentsIntroductionStefan Aquilina1. Teaching Stanislavsky’s Core Approach of Action, Imagination, and Experiencing: And Why It Is Still Relevant for Acting Students and ProfessionalsJohn Gillett2. Stanislavsky and the Pedagogy of Play Hilary Halba3. When Actors Become Birds: Re-Envisioning Pedagogical Frameworks in the Rehearsal SpaceJulia Listengarten and Christopher Niess4. Framing Stanislavsky: Online Pedagogies in the Zoom EraBella Merlin5. A Slice of Zoom Life: Transforming Actor Training in a Global PandemicDavid Shirley6. Stanislavsky Dances Argentine Tango: Actionable Knowledge on Co-Actor ConnectionElien Hanselaer7. Towards a Pedagogical Vision for Opera: The Musico-Dramatic Text and Stanislavsky’s 1922 Staging of Eugene Onegin Mario Frendo

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  • Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Performance

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    Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction11. KANTOR (1915–1990)12. HALPRIN (1920–)13. LECOQ (1921–1999)14. BOAL (1931–2009)15. GROTOWSKI (1933–1999)16. BARBA (1936–)17. MNOUCHKINE (1939–)18. BAUSCH (1940–2009)19. WILSON (1941–)20. ABRAMOVIC (1946–)21. LEPAGE (1957–)Index

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Giving Voice

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    Book SynopsisThis book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment.Giving Voice charts a roadmap for the process of establishing a troupe, including auditioning members, utilizing authentic source material, directing rehearsals, guiding mindful growth among troupe members, and facilitating an inclusive forum environment. Rooted in Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Opressed and using the nationally recognized Missouri State University's Giving Voice troupe as a model, this book provides guidance for customizing the program's principles to meet the needs of your school, community, organization, or business. Giving Voice forums bring professional development to a new level. Applications include diversity and cultural awareness training in educational settings for students, staff, faculty, and administrators, as well as those in non-profit and for-prof

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  • Acting the Michael Chekhov Way

    Taylor & Francis Acting the Michael Chekhov Way

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    Book SynopsisRooted in Chekhovâs Guiding Principles and Laws of Composition, Acting the Michael Chekhov Way: A Playbook for Healthy, Sequential Training offers a step-by-step pathway for actors, directors, and teachers with an emphasis on the health and wellbeing of the performer.Developed over thirty years within the National Michael Chekhov Associationâs renowned certification training, this clear, accessible training sequence for Michael Chekhovâs techniques is designed to support artists at every level. The chapters build logically and functionally, layering in benefits for artistic and personal growth. Central to the approach is the Chart of Inspired Action, created by Chekhov for his student and estate executrix, Mala Powers, who co-founded this pedagogy with Dalton and Professor Wil Kilroy. In these pages, Dalton introduces SynthAnalysisâ, a groundbreaking synthesis of Stanislavskyâs Analysis and Chekhovâs methods, bridging theory and practice tested through decades of global application. She also shares anecdotal insights from her 45-year acting/stunt career and draws on Chekhovâs esoteric inspirations â elements often absent in most books and teachings on Chekhov. The book presents mystical concepts like the Goblet in playful, functional ways, empowering artists to use them as imaginative metaphors and explore their deeper potential.A helpful tool for both solo and classroom use, Acting the Michael Chekhov Way will speak directly to the actor and their teachers, guiding them on a transformative journey into the heart of inspired action and creative freedom.The book includes access to detailed discussions, additional activities, downloadable templates, and suggested syllabi and tips for instructors, available at www.resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9781032844480.

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  • Actress

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Actress

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Stanislavski in Practice

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    Book SynopsisStanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's system. Author Nick O'Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike through the use of practical exercises that allow students to develop their skills. This second edition offers more exercises for the actor, and also new sections on directing and devising productions. Each element of the system is covered practically through studio exercises and jargon-free discussion. Exercises are designed to support syllabi from Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR and AQA to the practice-based requirements of BTEC and IB Theatre. This is the perfect exercise book for students and a lesson planner for teachers at post-16 and first year undergraduate level. New to this edition: Thoroughly reorganized sections, including ''Work on the Actor'', ''Work on a Role'' and ''Developing your Practice''; A new chapter on usingTable of ContentsTable of Contents Objectives Action Imagination Free Body Communication The Super Objective, Through Action and Germ EventsTempo-rhythm, voice and movement Rehearsing and Play Improvisations The Acting Exercise Programme The Directing Exercise Programme

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Casting a Movement

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    Book SynopsisCasting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.Drawing on the notion of a welcome tablea space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as equals to create theatrethe book's contributors discuss casting practices as they relate to varying communities and contexts, including Middle Eastern American theatre, Disability culture, multilingual performance, Native American theatre, color- and culturally-conscious casting, and casting as a means to dismantle stereotypes. Syler and Banks suggest that casting is a way to invite more people to the table so that the full breadth of US identities can be reflected onstage, and that casting is inherently a political act; because an actor's embodied presence both communicates a dramatic narrative and evokes cultural assumptions associated with appearance, skin color, gender, sexuality, and ability, casting choices are nTrade Review"a must-read title for any theatre professional, educator or student [...] Readers will walk away inspired to interrogate their own theatrical practice, engage in conversation with other theatre makers, and seek to create theatre where all have a seat and voice at the table."- Derrick Vanmeter, Southern Theatre"a timely work whose significance goes beyond the discipline of theater to add to the national conversation on institutionalized racism. Read alongside recent political, social and artistic developments, including the Black Lives Matter movement, theatre closures precipitated by COVID-19 and the political upheavals of the Trump presidency, it remaps the field."- Erith Jaffe-Berg, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre"As this volume reaches classrooms and institutions around the globe, the voices echoing through its pages will challenge theatre-makers to remember the implications that bodies of colour and other-ableness carry with them into production and to rethink the ways they welcome all communities to the table."- Collin Vorbeck, Theatre Research InternationalTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of ContributorsForeword: From "I Love Your Freckles" to "Representation Matters" AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Welcome Table: Casting for an Integrated SocietyPart One: Culturally Conscious Casting Part Two: Approaches to Casting Middle Eastern American TheatrePart Three: Casting and Disability Culture Part Four: Casting and Multilingual PerformancePart Five: Casting Contemporary Native American Theatre Part Six: Dismantling Stereotypes Part Seven: Casting Across IdentitiesAfterword

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Physical Dramaturgy

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    Book SynopsisWhat is physical dramaturgy? While the traditional dramaturg shares research intellectually, the physical dramaturg does so viscerally and somatically. By combining elements of text, history, dramatic structure, and the author's intent with movement analysis and physical theatre pedagogies, the physical dramaturg gives actors the opportunity to manifest their work in a connected and intuitive manner and creates a field that is as varied and rich as the theatre itself.Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field explores the ways in which this unique role can benefit the production team during the design and rehearsal phases of both traditional and devised productions. Individual chapters look at new ways of approaching a wealth of physical worlds, from the works of Shakespeare and other period playwrights to the processes of Jerzy Grotowski, Lloyd Williamson, Richard Schechner, and Michael Chekhov, and devising original works in a variety of contexts from PiTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical styles and case studies from the Greeks to contemporary theatre; Chapter 1 Embodying Greek period style: Physical dramaturgy in staging Euripides’ Medea; Chapter 2 Festina Lente and Sprezzatura in action: Unlikely sources of physical dramaturgy in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It; Chapter 3 Shakespeare’s text in the body of the character in The Winter’s Tale; Chapter 4 Period style: The physical dramaturgy of Loyd Williamson’s Salon; Chapter 5 Understanding the world of the play through period movement; PART II Inner landscapes: Dramaturgy from within; Chapter 6 Dramaturgy as litany; Chapter 7 A dramaturgy of embodiment: The study and practice of experiential anatomy; Chapter 8 The augmented body; Chapter 9 Mining the imagination: A physical approach to the creation of story with Action Theater; PART III Acts of translation: Physical dramaturgy in the rehearsal room; Chapter 10 Devising Brechtian moments: The transformation of traditional dramaturgy into physical dramaturgy; Chapter 11 "Lit from within": Non-traditional casting in Chekhovian realism through physical dramaturgy; Chapter 12 The alchemy of re-composing history in Iphigenia and Other Daughters; 13 Quadruple threat musical theatre: Adding the physical dramaturg; Chapter 14 Kinetic analysis and gesture mapping in The Government Inspector and Anton’s Shorts; PART IV Physical dramaturgy in the devising process; 15 The search for synecdoche: Insight into Pig Iron Theatre Company’s physical dramaturgy. Quinn Bauriedel interview, July 29, 2016; Chapter 16 Devising ‘madness’: Physical dramaturgy in The Ophelia Project and Asylum; Chapter 17 The phenomenon of silence. Bill Bowers interview, September 9, 2017; Chapter 18 Butoh, landscape theatre, and the physical dramaturgy of Gale GAtes et al.; Chapter 19 Moment Work: Exploring the full potential of the stage. Moisés Kaufman interview, July 20, 2017; Chapter 20 Physical dramaturgy: Reflections for the actor, director, designer, and deviser; Index

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Black Acting Methods

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    Book SynopsisBlack Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate their methods. This ground-breaking collection is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions of Black culture in theatre arts. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.Table of ContentsOrder of OfferingsFOREWORD: The Blessing by Molefi Kete AsanteACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: The Affirmation by Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. ShafferMethods of Social ActivismOFFERING 1 The Hendricks Method Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. ShafferOFFERING 2 SoulWorkCristal Chanelle TruscottOFFERING 3 Nudging the Memory-Creating Performance with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women Rhodessa Jones OFFERING 4 Art Saves Lives: Rebecca Rice and the Performance of Black Feminist Improv for Social Change Lisa Biggs Methods of InterventionOFFERING 5 Seeing Shakespeare through Brown Eyes Justin EmekaOFFERING 6 Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum:the journey from Shakespeare to ShangeTawnya Pettiford-Wates OFFERING 7 Remembering, Rewriting, and Re-Imagining: Afrocentric Approaches to Directing New Work for the TheatreClinnesha Sibley Methods of Cultural PluralityOFFERING 8 The Hip Hop Theatre Initiative: We the ‘Griot’Daniel Banks OFFERING 9 Kadogo Mojo: Global Crossings in the TheatreAku KadogoOFFERING 10 #Unyielding Truth: Employing Culturally Relevant PedagogyKashi Johnson and Daphnie SicreReflections from Distinguished PractitionersOFFERING 11 Rituals, Processes, and/or Methods from Distinguished PractitionersJudyie Al-Bilali, Timothy Bond, Sheldon Epps, Shirley Jo Finney, Nataki Garrett, Anita Gonzalez, Paul Carter Harrison, Robbie McCauley,Seret Scott, Tommie ‘Tonea’ Stewart, Talvin WilksOFFERING 12 Words of Wisdom from Distinguished PractitionersJudyie Al-Bilali, Timothy Bond, Walter Dallas, Sheldon Epps, Shirley Jo Finney, Kamilah Forbes, Nataki Garrett, Anita Gonzalez, Paul Carter Harrison, Ron Himes, Kym Moore, Seret Scott, Talvin WilksAPPENDIX: Recommendations for Acting/Performance Programs that Seek to Provide Equitable Training END NOTESLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Stanislavsky and Yoga

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    Book SynopsisThis book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei Tcherkasski carefully collects records on Yoga in Stanislavsky''s writings from different periods and discusses hidden references which are not explained by Stanislavsky himself due to the censorship in his day. Vivid examples of Yoga based training from the rehearsal practice of the Moscow Art Theatre and many of Stanislavsky''s studios (the First Studio in 1910s, the Second Studio and Opera Studio of the Bolshoi Theatre in 1920s, Opera-Dramatic Studio in 1930s) are provided.The focus of Tcherkasski''s research consists of a comparative reading of the Stanislavsky System and Yogi Ramacharaka''s books, which were a main source for Stanislavsky. Accordingly, Tcherkasski analyzes elements of the System based on Yoga principles. Among them are: relaxation of muscles (muscular release), communication and prana, emission of raysTrade ReviewThe final chapter explores the broader correspondences and divergences between the System and core elements of yoga. In this careful study, Tcherkasski makes a strong case for the continuity, rather than the oft-cited break, between old and new Stanislavsky, and illuminates the significance of yoga to modern actor training in and beyond Stanislavsky’s works.Coleman Nye, The Drama Review, Volume 62, Number 3, Fall 2018 Table of Contentsintroduction chapter i yoga in the theatre practice of stanislavsky Stanislavsky’s Acquaintance with Yoga Yoga in the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre Yoga in Stanislavsky’s Classes with Actors of the Moscow Art Theatre and the Second Studio in the late 1910s and the 1920s Yoga in the Opera Studio Yoga and the Late Period of Stanislavsky’s Work (1930s) chapter ii yoga in the literary heritage of stanislavsky Yoga of the Twentieth Century and its Ancient Roots A Comparative Reading of Stanislavsky and Ramacharaka chapter iii yoga elements of the stanislavsky system Relaxation of Muscles (Muscular Release) Communication and Prana Attention Visualizations (Mental Images) Superconscious ‘I am’ Conclusion

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  • Cambridge University Press Speech and Performance in Shakespeares Sonnets and Plays

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  • Cambridge University Press Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dellarte

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    Book SynopsisThis 2002 book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time. Henke closely analyzes commedia dell'arte texts in order to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were fruitfully combined in performance.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… teacher friendly … inspired insights … this engaging and worthwhile perspective on the commedia dell'arte offers plenty of food for thought.' Journal of Theatre Research InternationalTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Improvisation and characters; 3. Residual orality in early modern Italy and the commedia dell'arte; 4. Venetian buffoni; 5. Early male actors; 6. Early actresses; 7. Zanni texts, 1576–88; 8. Conclusions and caprices: early texts of the Dottore and Pantalone; 9. Tristano Martinelli: a company buffone; 10. Theatrical and literary 'composition' in Francesco Andreini and Flaminio Scala; 11. The generation of Cecchini: technical, moral and dramaturgical publications; Notes; Bibliography.

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  • Cambridge University Press The Stanislavsky System of Acting Legacy and Influence in Modern Performance

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    Book SynopsisKonstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director and actor and co-founder, in 1898, of the Moscow Art Theatre, was the originator of the most influential system of acting in the history of western theatre. Many of Stanislavsky's concepts are widespread in popular thought on acting; this book offers a evaluation of the basis of his ideas, discussing whether the system has survived because Stanislavsky made discoveries about acting that are and always have been scientifically verifiable, or whether his methods work on a practical basis despite an outdated theory. Drawing on information that has become available in recent years in Russia, the book examines how the development of Stanislavsky's system was influenced by scientific discoveries in his lifetime, and compares Stanislavsky's methods with those of Evgeny Vakhtangov, Michael Chekhov and Vsevolod Meyerhold. A full understanding of these ideas is crucial for anyone interested in acting and actor-training today.Trade Review"This engrossing, thorough study of Konstantein Stanislavsky's revered system of acting challenges the mythologies that have accumulated around this iconic figure...a thorough going assesment of the spiritual, psychological, and political framework of the late - 19th and early 20th century Russia,...Highly recommended..." - J. H. Houchin, Boston College, Choice, Vol. 46 No. 06Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Science, nature and acting: the context for Stanislavsky and the system; 2. Experiencing: the emotional and spiritual actor; 3. Incarnation: the actor as machine; 4. Challenges to the system: Vakhtangov and Michael Chekhov; 5. Challenges to the system: Meyerhold; 6. Theory and practice of the system: Stanislavsky and Soviet science.

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  • Cambridge University Press Performance and Literature in the Commedia dellArte

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  • Cambridge University Press Players of Shakespeare 6 Essays in the Performance of Shakespeares History Plays

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    Book SynopsisThis sixth volume of essays by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre is the first to focus on a single group of Shakespeare's plays. To celebrate the arrival of the new millennium the RSC presented productions of all eight of the history plays of the first and second Lancastrian tetralogies. Half of the twelve essays in this volume accordingly come from this important and historic cycle. Of the other six essays, from later productions, three are from the rarely performed King John, one from the even more rarely performed Edward III and the remaining two deal with the best-known title roles among the history plays, in two major recent independent productions of Henry V and Richard III. The contributors are Guy Henry, Kelly Hunter, Jo Stone-Fewings, David Rintoul, Samuel West, David Troughton, Nancy Carroll, Desmond Barrit, Adrian Lester, Fiona Bell, Richard Cordery, and Henry Goodman.Trade Review'… rich and searching volume …' The Times Literary Supplement'The best efforts in this series are first rate.' Contemporary ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction Robert Smallwood; King John Guy Henry; Constance in King John Kelly Hunter; The Bastard in King John Jo Stone-Fewings; King Edward the Third David Rintoul; King Richard the Second Samuel West; Bolingbroke in Richard the Second and King Henry the Fourth David Troughton; Lady Percy in Parts 1 and 2 of Henry the Fourth Nancy Carroll; Falstaff in Parts 1 and 2 of Henry the Fourth Desmond Barrit; King Henry the Fifth Adrian Lester; Joan of Arc in Part 1 of Henry the Sixth and Margaret of Anjou in Parts 1, 2, and 3 of Henry the Sixth and in Richard the Third Fiona Bell; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in Parts 1 and 2 of Henry the Sixth and Buckingham in Richard the Third Richard Cordery; King Richard the Third Henry Goodman.

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  • Cambridge University Press Speech and Performance in Shakespeares Sonnets and Plays

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  • Cambridge University Press The Stanislavsky System of Acting

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  • Cambridge University Press The Art of the Actress

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  • Acting for the Camera

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Acting for the Camera

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    Book SynopsisCulled from Tony Barr''s 40 years'' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera. This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera skills; additional chapters on imagination and movement; and fresh material on character development, monologues, visual focus, playing comedy and working with directors. Inside tips on the studio system and acting guilds make it particularly helpful for people new to the business, and numerous anecdotes from actors such as Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins and examples from current movies illustrate its many lessons. It is perfect for acting classes, workshops, all actors who work in front of the camera -- and all those who want to.

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  • Seduction Sex Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughess

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Seduction Sex Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughess

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review“Guaranteed to engross anyone with any interest at all in Hollywood, in movies, in #MeToo and in the never-ending story of men with power and women without.” — New York Times Book Review “The stories Longworth uncovers—about Katharine Hepburn and Jane Russell, yes, but also Ida Lupino and Faith Domergue and Anita Loos—are so rich, so compelling, that they urge you to question how much else in history has been lost within the swirling vortex of Great Men.” — Atlantic “A compelling and relevant must-read.” — Entertainment Weekly “A first-rate work of cultural curation, in which Longworth combs the countless stacks of Hollywood memoirs and biographies, with a focus on the pathological predations of Howard Hughes, Texas millionaire, starmaker and film producer.” — USA Today (four stars) “An astute and entertaining takedown of the movie industry, the press and the multimillionaire turned wannabe filmmaker Howard Hughes. Hardly anyone emerges from the pages of Seduction unblemished by selfishness and greed once they are touched by the movie business and its promise of wealth, power and fame.” — Associated Press “From the force behind the You Must Remember This podcast comes a book exploring the glamour of classic Hollywood cinema through the lens of Texas business magnate, filmmaker (Hell’s Angels, Scarface), and notorious womanizer Howard Hughes—think a Harvey Weinstein–esque character decades before #MeToo.” — Vanity Fair “Longworth blasts through the seductive narratives propagated by men in the film business to uncover the dark stories underneath.” — The Cut “Vibrant… A compulsive page-turner… Much of Seduction reads like a long overdue act of redress, repositioning women into the more central positions where they belong.” — Los Angeles Times “Longworth pulls back the curtain on Hollywood’s golden age to reveal, through the stories of some of the actresses pursued by legendary millionaire mogul Howard Hughes, its dark and lasting legacy of power inequity, harassment, and abuse.” — Bustle “Seduction reads like a scandal sheet tempered with primary and secondary research.” — Los Angeles Review of Books “A candid portrait of the multifaceted millionaire…As his romantic tastes shifts from known quantities — like Hepburn, Rogers and Gardner — to powerless unknowns, Seduction reveals the root of Hughes’s interest in women: a desire to exert total control, rather than true affection.” — Washington Post “Audacious and welcome.” — Sight and Sound “Jam-packed with Hollywood scandal and history.” — Refinery 29 “Karina Longworth loves Hollywood the way it ought to be loved — mercilessly. She is a skeptic without cynicism, a feminist without apology, and in Seduction she has found the great subject that her essential podcast has long promised” — James Kaplan, author of Sinatra “An entertaining and timely tour of early Hollywood mores and manipulation. No matter how much you think you know about golden age Hollywood, Longworth serves up fascinatingly fresh perspective on the ways male desire and power shaped movie mythology.” — Joy Press, author of Stealing the Show “Full of insight...illuminating and memorable.” — Booklist “A history that shows clearly how powerful men exploited actresses long before the #MeToo movement began. Hollywood historian Longworth has mined memoirs, biographies, magazines, newspapers, and archives to create an entertaining, gossip-filled portrait of the film capital’s golden age… A lively—and often sordid—Hollywood history.” — Kirkus Reviews “Throughout this densely researched and lively book the siren song of the new medium of film is heard.” — Cineaste

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  • The Stanislavski System The Professional Training

    Penguin Books Ltd The Stanislavski System The Professional Training

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    Book SynopsisThis clearly written guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among students and teachers of acting. Now, in light of books and articles recently published in the Soviet Union, Sonia Moore has made revisions that include a new section on the subtext of a role. She provides detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for more than twenty years. Designed to create better actors, this guide will put individuals in touch with themselves and increase personal sensitivity as well.Table of ContentsThe Stanislavski SystemAuthor's Note to the Second Revised EditionPreface by Sir John GielgudForeword by Joshua LoganStanislavski and his SystemThe Method of Physical ActionsElements of an ActionThe "Magic If"Given CircumstancesImaginationConcentration of AttentionTruth and BeliefCommunionAdaptationTempop-RhythmEmotional MemoryAnalysis through Events and ActionsThe Super-Objective and the Through Line of ActionsThe Actor's Physical ApparatusWork on the Role: Building a CharacterThe Subtext of BehaviorThe DirectorEugene Vakhtangov: The DiscipleBibliographyIndex

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    £14.40

  • Acting in Television Commercials for Fun and

    Random House USA Inc Acting in Television Commercials for Fun and

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Ultimate Guide to Commercial SuccessActing in television commercials is a highly competitive business, but it can also be very lucrative. Whether you’re looking for your first break or want to take your acting career to the next level, Squire Fridell will give you the insider’s edge. Arguably the king of TV commercials, Fridell distills four decades of experience in this comprehensive, humorously written guide that has been indispensable to aspiring TV commercial actors since the first edition hit the shelves in 1980. This fully updated fourth edition gives the lowdown on how online and digital technologies have changed the industry and tells you everything you need to know about:• Getting a terrific headshot• Writing a winning résumé• Finding (and keeping) the perfect agent• Honing the skills that every serious commercial actor should have• Auditioning well and getting the job• Using the best

    10 in stock

    £13.29

  • Random House USA Inc Acting as a Business Fifth Edition

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    10 in stock

    £13.49

  • LUP - University of Michigan Press Sightlines

    10 in stock

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  • The University of Michigan Press Animal Acts

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis

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    £61.86

  • How to Stop Acting

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux How to Stop Acting

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Great Guskin (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive Harold Guskin is an acting doctor whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. In How to Stop Acting, Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have worked wonders for beginners as well as stars. Instead of yet another method, Guskin offers a strategy based on a radically simple and refreshing idea: that the actor''s work is not to create a character but rather to be continually, personally responsive to the text, wherever his impulse takes him, from first read-through to final performance. From this credo derives an entirely new perspective on auditioning and the challenge of developing a role and keeping it fresh, even over hundreds of performances. Drawing on examples from his clients'' work and his own, Guskin presents acting as a constantly evolving exploratio

    10 in stock

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  • Acting Naturally

    Alfred A. Knopf Acting Naturally

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craftOpen to any page and you’ll become enthralled by the...tales of forgotten film lore, childhood memories, sexy gossip.”—Philip Kaufman, directorMeryl Streep, Marlon Brando, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan. When we watch these remarkable actors in a performance, we see only Sophie, Stanley Kowalski, Hannibal Lecter, or Cassie from Promising Young Woman. How are they able to transform our world in this way? How and why do they do what they do?In Acting Naturally, David Thomson sheds light on the actors who have shaped the film industry. He shrewdly analyzes these stars—among them, James Dean, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Louise Brooks, Riz Ahmed, Sir Laurence Olivier, Viola Davis, and Jean Seberg—revealing how a sly smile, an extra-long pause, even a small gesture of the hand can draw in an audience. And he takes us behind the scenes to examine casting and all the other moments leading up to “Action!”Through intimate anecdote, humor, and the insight born of a lifetime watching and analyzing film, Thomson explores the real reasons why we go to the movies and looks at how they influence our lives. This book is not only necessary reading for an insider’s view of the industry but also a surprising investigation of the relationship between acting and living.

    10 in stock

    £24.00

  • True and False Heresy and Common Sense for the

    Random House USA Inc True and False Heresy and Common Sense for the

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisOne of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. Acting schools, “interpretation,” “sense memory,” “The Method”—David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to undertake auditions and rehearsals, deal with agents and directors, engage audiences, and stay faithful to the script, while rejecting the temptations that seduce so many of their colleagues. Bracing in its clarity, exhilarating in its common sense, True and False is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as it is inspiring.

    10 in stock

    £12.44

  • Leonardo DiCaprio

    Phaidon Press Ltd Leonardo DiCaprio

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisTen roles by one of today's most sought-after actors

    10 in stock

    £40.70

  • Working on the Inside The Spiritual Life Through

    Rowman & Littlefield Working on the Inside The Spiritual Life Through

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisWorking on the Inside goes backstage into the inner lives of respected actors like Liam Neeson, Vanessa Williams, Phylicia Rashad, Edward Herrmann, Kristin Chenoweth and many others to reveal the deep spirituality each one relies on in their lives and work.Trade ReviewI look forward so much to buying the book and reading slowly through what promises to be truly worth reading. -- Vanessa RedgraveThe author has managed to consult an impressive array of marquee names . . . She has also interviewed interesting personalities outside the mainstream. . . Blaney is adept at conveying the disparate voices of her interview subjects and she lets them speak with a minumum of authorial mediation. . . Blaney is the founder of Broadway Blessing . . . In that capacity and in her book, she displays a keen appreciation for the value that religious groups and individuals place on community life and activity. * Theatermania.Com *I am completely taken with Working on the Inside. I've tried to resist reading it straight through, since it is so rich with anecdote, good theological writing, and spiritual insight-like a box of chocolates-but I am already half way through. It's the best book on spirituality I've read since Alan Jones' Living the Truth. -- The Rev. Canon Thomas P. Miller, Canon for Liturgy and the Arts, Cathedral Church of St. John the DivineBlaney digs deeply into the lives of actors in this engagingly written book. * Publishers Weekly *Blaney breaks new ground, offering almost a how-to guide to working spirituality into one’s work, or vice versa. . . . compelling reading. * The Jewish Week *. . . creative and soulful paperback . . . Once you read this book, you will have a greater appreciation of the spiritual practices that can animate your performances on your daily stage. * Spirituality and Health *. . . eye-opening, thought-provoking and even inspiring. * Encore *Working on the Inside is thoughtful and thought provoking as it explores our common humanity and spirituality that cuts across religious lines. . . The book is a brilliant concept—well executed—that reads easily, but raises thoughts and ideas that linger in the reader’s mind long after putting down. It is a work that will be revisited over and over again. * The Liberal Minyan Of Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea *As a media studies professor interested in the character development of people who will be working in the media and entertainment industry, I found this book to be of utmost value. The author has done a marvelous job of selecting credible people in the entertainment field, interviewing them, and communicating their private thoughts about their personal spiritual journeys. . . It was Pascal who said that in the heart of every man is a God-shaped vacuum that only God can fill. This book really helps to explain how people sense that "God-shaped vacuum" and how they search for a relationship with a living God. -- Dr. Geri Forsberg, Adjunct Professor of Communication, Trinity Western University; Affiliate Staff Member with Christian Leadership Ministries, theIf you (or someone you know) want to learn about the spiritual life, but don't get much out of traditional sources, Working on the Inside provides an alternative. For the celebrity-mad among us it might be a gateway to a whole new way of looking at the world. * Clergy Journal *If you want to know what celebs like Liam Neeson, Kristin Chenoweth and others really think about God, this book is an inspiring read. Author and journalist Retta Blaney does an amazing job of discussing the spiritual significance of mixing faith and art in some intriguing discussions with some A-list stars. * Beliefnet.Com *Insightful and entertaining, this book goes well beyond 'Inside the Actors Studio' fare, offering revealing glimpses of the soul of the performer. * The Living Church *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Faith: Jeanne Beauvais * Dudu Fisher * Michael McElroy * Kristin Chenoweth * Larry Collis * Rabbi Richard Steinberg * The Rev. Paul S. Schmiege Chapter 2 In the Moment: Vanessa Williams * Casey Groves * Kristin Chenoweth * Richard Costa * Rabbi David Woznica * The Rev. Robert E. Kennedy, S.J. Chapter 3 Listening: Kristin Chenoweth * Edward Herrmann * Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun * Peter W. Culman Chapter 4 Silence: Phylicia Rashad * Edward Herrmann * Liam Neeson * Matt Mitler * Rabbi James L. Mirel * Sr. Mary Elizabeth Earley, S.C. Chapter 5 Prayer: Liam Neeson * Vanessa Williams * Michael McElroy * Bertilla Baker * Kristin Chenoweth * Rabbi David Baron * The Rev. George Drance, S.J. Chapter 6 Self-Knowledge: Vanessa Williams * Edward Herrmann * Ann Dowd * Amanda Blair Ellis * Heather Tamar Feffer * The Rev. Mitties DeChamplain Chapter 7 Community: Michael McElroy * Liam Neeson * Amanda Blair Ellis * Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg * The Rt. Rev. Catherine S. Roskam Chapter 8 Hospitality: Kristin Chenoweth * Lesley Birchall Collis * Larry Collis * Matt Mitler * Carol-Jean Lewis * Rabbi Allen A. Secher * The Rev. Erno Diaz Chapter 9 Ritual: Carol-Jean Lewis * Merwin Goldsmith * Matt Mitler * Rabbi Noach Valley * The Rev. Canon Jay Wegman Chapter 10 Transformation: Kristin Chenoweth * Casey Groves * Lesley Collis * Shoshana Bean * Rabbi Richard Jacobs * The Rev. William A. Doubleday

    10 in stock

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  • Simply Acting A Handbook for Beginning Actors

    Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Simply Acting A Handbook for Beginning Actors

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    10 in stock

    £61.20

  • Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

    Not Stated Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisAnne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of view Winner of the Governor General Award in PoetryTrade Review""This little grenade of a book is difficult to categorize. It's a performance piece and a treatise on war and beauty, reality and fakery, bombshell and bombing—with ancient Greek etymology lessons woven in to show us how the small and everyday becomes epic, and vice versa. Marilyn Monroe (neé Norma Jeane Baker) is fused here with Helen of Troy, and elements of both milieus—Homer and Hollywood—populate the narrative. It's easy to imagine the blunt beauty of Carson's language being spoken and sung on stage."" -- Barbara Engel - Booklist"This book fuses poetry, fun Greek history lexicon lessons, Helen, and Marilyn. 'War creates two categories of persons: those who outlive it and those who don't.//Both carry wounds.' Delicious couplets. There are dancers who have internalized the music to such a high vibration that they no longer fit into a strict categorization for what they do. They weave with the music in an ancient alien way. Anne Carson brings intergalactic musical moves to the written page. 'Hermione it’s me, hello hello hello hello hello.' I dare you to get to that line and not ache. How does an artist write this way? Brilliance and cherries light her stage" -- Young Eun Yook - Literati Bookstore""Carson at her best: arresting, exact, at once surprising and unsurprised. She depends on Euripides throughout, but pushes him further than he was prepared to go."" -- Jeff Dolven - Public Books"There’s no other writer that can present such demands on a feather pillow for the reader, fuse erudition with insights so fluidly, and naturalize unorthodoxy in a manner preserving stylistic originality with timeless thought." -- Rain Taxi"There is a stark awareness nowadays that we need new ways of thinking about female icons like Helen or Marilyn Monroe, new ways to revolve the traditional male version of such events 360 degrees and find different, deeper sorrows there." -- Anne Carson"There’s a long tradition of using original epics as the departure point for new texts that foreground minor characters in their antecedents. Carson has been writing into the cracks of the classical corpus her whole career, but in this book she is partially following in the footsteps of HD’s Helen in Egypt, itself a modernist epic poem. Carson places Marilyn Monroe alongside Helen of Troy and investigates the incendiary, nation-shaking potential of sex appeal." -- Stephanie Sy-Quia - The Guardian"There’s a long tradition of using original epics as the departure point for new texts that foreground minor characters in their antecedents. Carson has been writing into the cracks of the classical corpus her whole career, but in this book she is partially following in the footsteps of HD’s Helen in Egypt, itself a modernist epic poem. Carson places Marilyn Monroe alongside Helen of Troy and investigates the incendiary, nation-shaking potential of sex appeal." -- Stephanie Sy-Quia - The Guardian

    4 in stock

    £8.99

  • On Actors And Acting Exeter Performance Studies

    University of Exeter Press On Actors And Acting Exeter Performance Studies

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.Trade Review‘In this resonant collection of essays, Peter Thomson invites us to contemplate the performance techniques of key actors in the British theatre from the Shakespearean era to the present day…. throughout the book Thomson’s elegant prose draws the reader into a completely absorbing commentary, mixing anecdote and humour with a passionate belief in the power of the actor as a popular figure … Thomson’s own excitement for the art reminds us how exciting acting can be.’ * Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004 *‘When Peter Thomson was writing reviews of Stratford productions for Shakespeare Survey in the 1970s, he saw his job as being ‘to reproduce in words what it was like to be there, but without ducking away from a responsibility to enter into contemporary debate’. This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable . . . interspersed with amplifications, second thoughts, wry self-criticisms and addenda from an author to whom the issues and arguments of the past still matter today . . . Historical practices and personages repeatedly are illuminated by reference to the contemporary, and many of Thomson’s throw-away remarks – such his comparison between Irving and David Warner – are worth their weight in gold.’ * Theatre Research International, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002 *‘Whilst Thomson disclaims the talent of Hazlitt, his readers, relishing his pithy insights, his biting wit, and admiring his crispness of phrase, will decide for themselves . . . [The book] will be enjoyed by anyone who cares deeply, with both head and heart, about not only teaching of drama but the future of theatre.’ * Speech and Drama, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2002 * ‘Thomson’s affection for actors, advocacy for the primacy of the actor’s role in the theatrical process, and strong belief in the significant art of the actor permeate this eclectic, learned, and entertaining collection of essays . . . Thomson’s style is scholarly yet somewhat quirky and anecdotal, and very accessible . . . Well documented and nicely illustrated, Thomson’s book provides a capstone to his productive writing and scholarly career.’ * Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, Dec 2001 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Actors and acting in the early modern theatre: the Elizabethan actor - a matter of temperament; making an entrance - Chaucer to Tarlton; the missing jig; three Elizabethan actors; a note on Elizabethan rehearsal. Part 2 Actors and acting in the 18th and 19th centuries: bigamy and theatre; David Garrick - alive in every muscle; summer company - Drury Lane in 1761; Edmund Kean versus John Philip Kemble; Frederick Robson - a downright good actor; Irving and the Lyceum - volcano and cathedral. Part 3 Shakespeare in the 20th century: Shakespeare at Stratford - 1970-1975; the New Globe - monument or portent?

    1 in stock

    £101.67

  • On Actors And Acting Essays on Popular Performers

    University of Exeter Press On Actors And Acting Essays on Popular Performers

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.Trade Review‘In this resonant collection of essays, Peter Thomson invites us to contemplate the performance techniques of key actors in the British theatre from the Shakespearean era to the present day…. throughout the book Thomson’s elegant prose draws the reader into a completely absorbing commentary, mixing anecdote and humour with a passionate belief in the power of the actor as a popular figure … Thomson’s own excitement for the art reminds us how exciting acting can be.’ * Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004 *‘When Peter Thomson was writing reviews of Stratford productions for Shakespeare Survey in the 1970s, he saw his job as being ‘to reproduce in words what it was like to be there, but without ducking away from a responsibility to enter into contemporary debate’. This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable . . . interspersed with amplifications, second thoughts, wry self-criticisms and addenda from an author to whom the issues and arguments of the past still matter today . . . Historical practices and personages repeatedly are illuminated by reference to the contemporary, and many of Thomson’s throw-away remarks – such his comparison between Irving and David Warner – are worth their weight in gold.’ * Theatre Research International, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002 *‘Whilst Thomson disclaims the talent of Hazlitt, his readers, relishing his pithy insights, his biting wit, and admiring his crispness of phrase, will decide for themselves . . . [The book] will be enjoyed by anyone who cares deeply, with both head and heart, about not only teaching of drama but the future of theatre.’ * Speech and Drama, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2002 * ‘Thomson’s affection for actors, advocacy for the primacy of the actor’s role in the theatrical process, and strong belief in the significant art of the actor permeate this eclectic, learned, and entertaining collection of essays . . . Thomson’s style is scholarly yet somewhat quirky and anecdotal, and very accessible . . . Well documented and nicely illustrated, Thomson’s book provides a capstone to his productive writing and scholarly career.’ * Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, Dec 2001 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Actors and acting in the early modern theatre: the Elizabethan actor - a matter of temperament; making an entrance - Chaucer to Tarlton; the missing jig; three Elizabethan actors; a note on Elizabethan rehearsal. Part 2 Actors and acting in the 18th and 19th centuries: bigamy and theatre; David Garrick - alive in every muscle; summer company - Drury Lane in 1761; Edmund Kean versus John Philip Kemble; Frederick Robson - a downright good actor; Irving and the Lyceum - volcano and cathedral. Part 3 Shakespeare in the 20th century: Shakespeare at Stratford - 1970-1975; the New Globe - monument or portent?

    2 in stock

    £33.42

  • Winning Auditions 101 Strategies for Actors

    Limelight Editions Winning Auditions 101 Strategies for Actors

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisWINNING AUDITIONS: 101 STRATEGIES FOR ACTORS

    10 in stock

    £10.44

  • Acting Solo Roadmap to Success

    Limelight Editions Acting Solo Roadmap to Success

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisACTING SOLO

    10 in stock

    £15.29

  • The Actor as Storyteller An Introduction to

    Limelight Editions The Actor as Storyteller An Introduction to

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisTHE ACTOR AS STORYTELLER: AN INTRODUCTION TO ACTING

    10 in stock

    £21.24

  • An Actor Succeeds Tips Secrets and Advice on

    Hal Leonard Corporation An Actor Succeeds Tips Secrets and Advice on

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisAN ACTOR SUCCEEDS: TIPS SECRETS & ADVICE ON AUDITIONING CONNECTING COPING & THRIVING

    10 in stock

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  • Gateways Books & Tapes,US The Actors Landscape

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisInspires students of theatrical arts to delve into their own inner reserves of memories, feelings, and dreams to find strong grounding for the characters they wish to convey.

    20 in stock

    £12.56

  • Drama Publishers/Quite Specific Media Freeing the Natural Voice Imagery and Art in the

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