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Author by: Lola CohenLanguange: enPublisher by: RoutledgeFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 89Total Download: 643File Size: 44,5 MbDescription: The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to ‘re-create’ – not ‘imitate’ – logical, believable and truthful behavior on stage and in film. Building on nearly 30 years of teaching internationally and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles, Lola Cohen details a series of specific exercises in order to provide clear instruction and guidance to this preeminent form of actor training. By integrating Strasberg's voice with her own tried and tested style of teaching, Cohen demonstrates what can be gained from the exercises, how they can inform and inspire your learning, and how they might be applied to your acting and directing practice. As a companion to The Lee Strasberg Notes (Routledge 2010), a transcription of Strasberg's own teaching, The Method Acting Exercises Handbook offers an unparalleled and updated guide to this world renowned technique. Author by: Lola CohenLanguange: enPublisher by:Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 73Total Download: 276File Size: 40,6 MbDescription: The Method Acting Exercises Handbookis a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to 're-create' - not 'imitate' - logical, believable and truthful behavior on stage and in film.

Building on nearly 30 years of teaching internationally and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles, Lola Cohen details a series of specific exercises in order to provide clear instruction and guidance to this preeminent form of actor training. By integrating Strasberg's voice with her own tried and tested style of teaching, Cohen demonstrates what can be gained from the exercises, how they can inform and inspire your learning, and how they might be applied to your acting and directing practice. As a companion to The Lee Strasberg Notes(Routledge 2010), a transcription of Strasberg's own teaching, The Method Acting Exercises Handbook offers an unparalleled and updated guide to this world renowned technique. Author by:Languange: enPublisher by:Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 22Total Download: 940File Size: 51,8 MbDescription: 2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition.

Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'A wealth of material on the theory and practice of acting. A book which may be read, re-read and absorbed by everyone who assumes the directing of actors or that most difficult task, the teaching of acting.' -Quarterly Journal of Speech. Contains early contributions on the craft by Stanislavski, I. Rapoport, M.A.

Chekhov, Vakhtangov, Giatsintova, Pudovkin, Zakhava and others. Also includes 25 illustrations related to the stage and the art of acting. Contents include: Introduction / Lee Strasberg - The actor's responsibility / Constantin Stanislavski - Direction and acting / Constantin Stanislavski - The work of the actor / I. Rapoport - The creative process / I. Sudakov - Stanislavski's method of acting / M.A. Chekhov - Preparing for the role: from the diary of E.

Vakhtangov / E. Vakhtangov - Case history of a role / A.S. Giatsintova - From the production plan of Othello / Constantin Stanislavski - Film acting: two phases / V.I. Pudovkin - Principles of directing / B.E. Zakhava - To his players at the first rehearsal of The blue bird / Constantin Stanislavski.

Author by: Konstantin StanislavskyLanguange: enPublisher by: Taylor & FrancisFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 37Total Download: 811File Size: 54,5 MbDescription: This is the classic lexicon of Stanislavski's most important concepts, all in the master's own words. Upon its publication in 1963, An Actor's Handbook quickly established itself as an essential guide for actors and directors. Culling key passages from Stanislavski's vast output, this book covers more than one hundred and fifty key concepts, among them 'Improvisation', 'External Technique', 'Magic If', 'Imaginary Objects', 'Discipline', 'What Is My System?'

And 'Stage Fright'. This reissued, attractively packaged edition will be an essential book for any performer. Author by: Michael ChekhovLanguange: enPublisher by: Psychology PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 71Total Download: 447File Size: 48,8 MbDescription: Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to strengthen awareness. Chekhov's simple and practical method - successfully used by professional actors all over the world - trains the actor's imagination and body to fulfill its potential.

To the Actor includes a previously unpublished chapter on 'Psychological Gesture', translated into English by the celebrated director Andrei Malaev - Babel; a new biographical overview by Mala Powers; and a foreword by Simon Callow. This book is a vital text for actors and directors including acting and theatre history students. Author by: Donna Soto-MorettiniLanguange: enPublisher by: Intellect BooksFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 19Total Download: 599File Size: 47,7 MbDescription: Donna Soto-Morettini has served as Director of Drama for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Head of Acting for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and Head of Acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

She is currently Casting Director and Performance Coach for Andrew Lloyd Webber and the BBC -Book Jacket. Author by: Anne Johnston-BrownLanguange: enPublisher by: Smith & Kraus Pub IncorporatedFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 80Total Download: 568File Size: 55,7 MbDescription: The Ten Commandments of Theater is a ten-chapter, step-by-step handbook to guide theater actors through the acting process from the moment they are first cast in a role until the final curtain comes down. Each chapter is written as a Commandment?

A rule of the theater that must be respected in order to achieve success in a particular performance, as well as an overall acting career.These Commandments include points on:? Proper warm-up routines?

Scoring a script? Researching and developing a character? Formulating a personal acting process? And other guidelines that fall under the umbrella of?Method? Acting.Unlike many other acting handbooks, The Ten Commandments of Theater is concise and understandable for even the greenest of actors.

It is a must for young and veteran actors alike, providing tried-and-true techniques to help create a more successful acting process.ANNE JOHNSTON-BROWN is a graduate with Highest Honors from Cal State, San Bernardino, with her B.A. In Theatre Arts (Acting Emphasis). Over the past decade, Anne has accumulated a host of performance credits, including: Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, Maria Rainer in The Sound of Music, Mama Rose in Gypsy, Anna in The King and I, and many more. She most recently appeared on the Kodak Theatre stage as the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat alongside Eric Martsolf (Passions) and Brad Maul (Days of Our Lives).

She was a top-ten finalist at the ACTF Irene Ryan Competition in 1998 and has since won six Inland Empire Theatre League Outstanding Actress Awards. She is currently a proud member of the renowned Moho?s, a sketch comedy troupe founded and directed by comedian Fred Willard and his wife, Mary. Anne is a resident of San Bernardino and lives with herhusband, Tom, of eighteen years.

Author by: Jeremy KruseLanguange: enPublisher by: Applause Theatre & Cinema BooksFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 54Total Download: 732File Size: 45,7 MbDescription: (Applause Acting Series). The way some introductory acting books are written, it seems that a literal leg break is your best option. In The Young Actor's Handbook, Jeremy Kruse, an actor, writer, producer, and director who teaches method acting, acting for camera, improvisation, and sketch comedy at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, mends this mangled genre, distilling invaluable lessons and years of experience down to a lean, mean, intuitive hundred page primer. Rather than bludgeoning the uninitiated with dense paragraphs, vague concepts, and opaque examples, The Young Actor's Handbook ignites the beginning actor's creative soul with inspirational acting exercises, acting theory, writing exercises, and insight into what it means to be an actor. This concise and pragmatic manual will guide and inform the young actor, beginning actor, novice acting teacher, or anyone who wants to understand acting through a broad and diverse survey of essential knowledge.

The teachings of Richard Boleslavsky, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, Michael Shurtleff, Lee Strasberg, and Constantin Stanislavsky are eloquently and accessible rendered, as are basics of script analysis, camera technique, the audition mindset, agent acquisition, and the actor's life. Whether you're a curious novice, veteran acting teacher, or even an interested observer, The Young Actor's Handbook will enhance your understanding of this vast and rewarding craft.

On the Technique of Acting. Author: Michael Chekhov. Publisher: Routledge. ISBN:. Category: Performing Arts. Page: 288. View: 2898Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to strengthen awareness.

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Chekhov's simple and practical method – successfully used by professional actors all over the world – trains the actor's imagination and body to fulfill its potential. To the Actor includes a previously unpublished chapter on 'Psychological Gesture', translated into English by the celebrated director Andrei Malaev - Babel; a new biographical overview by Mala Powers; and a foreword by Simon Callow. This book is a vital text for actors and directors including acting and theatre history students. The Essential History of Acting from Classical Times to the Present Day. Author: Jean Benedetti. Publisher: Routledge. ISBN:.

Category: Performing Arts. Page: 256. View: 4643How did acting begin? What is its history, and what have the great thinkers on acting said about the art and craft of performance? In this single-volume survey of the history of acting, Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key texts, many of which are unavailable for the student today.

Beginning with the classical conceptions of acting as rhetoric and oratory, as exemplified in the writing of Aristotle, Cicero and others, The Art of the Actor progresses to examine ideas of acting in Shakespeare's time right through to the present day. Along the way, Benedetti considers the contribution and theories of key figures such as Diderot, Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Brecht, Artaud and Grotowski, providing a clear and concise explanation of their work illustrated by extracts and summaries of their writings. Some source materials appear in the volume for the first time in English.

The Art of the Actor will be the essential history of acting for all students and actors interested in the great tradition of performance, both as craft and as art. Author: Meredith Anne Skura. Publisher: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 800.

Category: Drama. Page: 325. View: 7494For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England.

Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance. Author: William B. Worthen. Publisher: Princeton University Press. ISBN:.

Category: Performing Arts. Page: 282. View: 8466Analyzing the relationship between dramatic action and the controversial art of acting, William Worthen demonstrates that what it means to act, to be an actor, and to communicate through acting embodies both an ethics of acting and a poetics of drama. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Shakespeare on Page and Stage. Author: Martin Buzacott. Publisher: Routledge. ISBN:. Category: Performing Arts.

Page: 192. View: 9869In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean meaning, he argues, the illusion of their centrality is sustained only by a rhetoric of heroism, violence and imperialism. Verbal and Visual Representation in the Age of Garrick and Kemble. Author: Shearer West. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 381.

Category: Performing Arts. Page: 191.

View: 2733The mistake of interpreting 18th-century theatrical portraits too literally has been made since the 19th-century when a different set of artistic codes prevailed. The image of the 18th-century actor which we can obtain from prints, paintings and pamphlets of the time, is not a collection of visual truths, but a construction based on critical canons, aesthetic prejudices, and commercial motivations prevalent during the period. Through an analysis of the importance of theatre among all the pleasures and pastimes enjoyed by 18th-century Londoners the author presents a detailed picture of the cultural climate inhabited by the actor and his audience.

The overwhelming fascination they had with the actor provides the background to an analysis of the function of the theatrical portrait, the burgeoning economy of the engraver, and the illustrator. Concepts of classicism and realism are explored in terms of how Garrick and Kemble will have been viewed in their work. The author also draws an interesting analogy between the aesthetics of action and sculptural representation through the work of Siddons, and goes on to consider the representation of the comic actor and how it was informed by art and art theory. Author: Ivana Chubbuck. Publisher: Penguin.

ISBN: 967. Category: Performing Arts. Page: 400.

View: 6556In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood. The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Hounsou, and Halle Berry, The Power of the Actor guides you to dynamic and effective results. For many of today’s major talents, the Chubbuck Technique is the leading edge of acting for the twenty-first century.

Ivana Chubbuck has developed a curriculum that takes the theories of the acting masters, such as Stanislavski, Meisner, and Hagen, to the next step by utilizing inner pain and emotions, not as an end in itself, but rather as a way to drive and win a goal. In addition to the powerful twelve-step process, the book takes well-known scripts, both classic and contemporary, and demonstrates how to precisely apply Chubbuck’s script-analysis process. The Power of the Actor is filled with fascinating and inspiring behind-the-scenes accounts of how noted actors have mastered their craft and have accomplished success in such a difficult and competitive field. Author: Kelly McEvenue. Publisher: St. Martin's Press. ISBN:.

Category: Performing Arts. Page: 176. View: 9218F.M. Alexander developed the Alexander Technique of movement in the early 20th century. Combining vocal clarity and body movement, Alexander developed a performance coaching method that is used by dancers, actors, singers, etc.

In The Actor and the Alexander Technique, Kelly McEvenue writes the first basic book about how this unique technique can help actors feel more natural on the stage. She provides warm-up exercises, 'balance' and 'center' exercises, spatial awareness exercises. She talks about imitation, the use of masks, nudity on the stage, dealing with injury and aging. She talks about specific productions that have successfully used the Alexander Technique, such as 'The Lion King'. With a foreword by Patsy Rodenburg of our own phenomenal The Actor Speaks this is a book that belongs on the shelf of every working and studying actor.