| Description |
1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Anthony Neilson: an overview -- Introducing the Narrative rehearsals -- Methodology -- Book structure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Neilson's authorial process -- Chapter 1 Neilson's authorial process and the actors' input -- Case study 1: Neilson as author, Blackmail and murder, and the authorial trope of sound to portray psychological liminality -- Case study 2: the actors' indirect input into Neilson's convoluted jigsaw |
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Case study 3: Olly Rix, Shakespeare and superheroes: the actors' direct input -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The 'Footmouse Dance': The actors' input into authorial tropes and Neilson's ad-hoc approach to authorship -- What's in a name?: the naming of characters as an authorial trope in Neilson's work -- Zawe Ashton and the cancelled magazine subscription: the actors' direct input reconsidered -- 'Footmouse! Brilliant!': humiliation as an authorial trope in Neilson's work -- Chance and the arbitrary: Neilson's 'magpie' approach to authorship -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Corpsing -- Failure as failure -- Play and catharsis: therapy for the 'Box Therapy' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Directing actors -- Chapter 5 Neilson the 'unsafe' director -- Directing and power: Neilson's egalitarian approach -- Directing and power: Neilson's not quite so egalitarian approach -- Power and communication -- 'Ask the Audience': the suggestion of audience participation and its rejection -- 'Ask the Audience': not Neilson's way or the high way -- 'What did you expect': Neilson directs the ending -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 6 Neilson and the actor's process -- The Stanislavskian actor's process -- Actors' heterogeneity -- Case study 1: Neilson's motivational speech -- The actor's process, emotional labour and the reality of working conditions -- Case study 2: Press Night -- The importance of timing for the actor's process -- Actors' coping strategies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000216066 |
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1000216063 |
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