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Book SynopsisListening and Talking: A Pathway to Acting provides undergraduate acting students with a clear, achievable, step-by-step way to approach the work of playing a role. The text is supplemented by exclusive video material to take the actor from their first encounter with the text through rehearsals with fellow actors and into performance. Drawing from the author''s twenty years'' experience of teaching at the Yale School of Drama, this book, which is influenced, too, by the work of legendary teachers such as Konstantin Stanislavski and Uta Hagen, presents a thorough examination of key aspects of the actor''s technique (for example, listening, playing an action and pursuing an objective). Throughout, it includes exercises and process points through which students can put into practice the key lessons from each chapter.The practices laid out in this book form a holistic curriculum that not only ensures measurable results over a semester- or year-long course, but also sets in motion an
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Looking to the Path—What Is Acting?
Part I: The Actor’s Path—Preparing for Rehearsals Chapter 1. Given Circumstances: What Will You Listen To? Reading the play Chapter 2. Objectives: What Will You Listen For? Chapter 3. Inhabiting Character
Part II: The Character’s Path—Rehearsal Chapter 4. Action: Targeting your partner Chapter 5. Building the Path Chapter 6. Technique in Action: Rehearsal Strategies
Part III: The Collaborator’s Path—From Rehearsal to Performance Chapter 7. Rehearsal practice Chapter 8. In performance In Conclusion
