Description
Book SynopsisCreating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you the performer with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space.
The creation of a solo show may be the most rewarding, liberating and stressful challenge you will take on in your career. This book acts as your silent collaborator as you develop your performance, by helpfully arranging exercises under the following headings:
- Beginnings
- Creating character
- Generating material
- Using your performance space
- Technology
- Endings
- Collaboration
Exercises can be explored in sequence, at random or according to your specific needs and interests as a performer. By enabling you to create a bespoke formula that best applies to your specific subjec
Trade Review
"A welcome addition to an actor's bookshelves." - Susan Elkin, The Stage
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to contemporary solo performance; Chapter 2 Beginnings; Chapter 3 Character/persona: Performer as vehicle; Chapter 4 Generating material; Chapter 5 Creating, mapping and using your performance space; Chapter 6 Approaching technology; Chapter 7 Structures and endings; Chapter 8 Collaboration;
