| Description |
xxi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword to the Fifth Edition -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- A Special Note to Female Performers and Readers -- Part I Acting: In Person -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Centering -- On Centering -- The Centering Process -- Moving with a Sense of Center -- Selective Readings -- 2 Sensing -- On Sensing -- Isolating the Senses -- Sight Perception, Touch Perception, Smell Perception, Taste Perception, Hearing Perception -- Combining the Senses -- Selective Readings -- 3 Focusing -- On Focusing -- The Importance of Observation -- Developing Skills in Observation -- Communion with the Self -- Communion with Physical Objects -- Communion with the Other -- Communion with the Imaginary -- Circles of Attention -- 4 Freeing -- On Freeing -- Sounding -- Sound and Movement Explorations -- Selective Readings -- 5 Speaking -- On Speaking -- On Being Heard -- On Projection -- Developing Skills -- Phrasing -- Context and Vocal Variety -- Definition of Terms -- Pitch and Range, Inflection, Intensity, Rate or Tempo, Emphasis, Pause, Rhythm -- Vocal Variety in Context -- Selective Readings -- 6 Feeling and Doing -- On Feeling and Doing -- Selective Readings -- 7 Synthesizing -- Selecting a Scene from the Play -- Four Techniques to Prepare a Scene -- Personalization and Character in a Scene, Motivation and Character in a Scene, Pantomimic Dramatization and Character in a Scene, Visualization and Character in a Scene -- Seven Steps to Heaven: A Simplified Approach to Preparing a Scene -- The Seven Steps -- Standard Acting Terms -- Acting Area, Acting Positions, Rehearsal Terms, Terms Related to Movement or Blocking -- A Last Comment Concerning Final Rehearsals and Performance of the Scene -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Eclectic -- Selective Readings -- 8 Auditioning -- How to Audition -- Types of Auditions -- Selecting an Audition Piece -- Practical Suggestions -- The Callback -- Musical Theatre Auditions -- Cold Reading -- Agents, Contracts, and Unions -- The Interview -- Selective Readings -- 9 Rehearsing -- On Rehearsing -- The Steps of Role Analysis -- Selective Readings -- Part II Acting in Style -- Introduction to Part II -- 10 Classical Antiquity: Restraint -- Overview of Greek Tragedy -- Voice Greek Tragedy, Movement Greek Tragedy, Music Greek Tragedy, Character and Emotion Greek Tragedy -- Overview of Satyr Comedy and Old Greek Comedy (Aristophanes) -- Voice Old Greek Comedy, Movement Old Greek Comedy, Character and Emotion Old Greek Comedy -- Transition -- Roman and Medieval Drama -- Roman Drama, Acting Roman Drama, Medieval Drama, Acting Medieval Drama -- Translators and Translations and Adaptions -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Additional Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Greek Tragedy -- Actor Checklist old Greek Comedy -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- Note -- 11 Commedia Dell'Arte: Regeneration -- Overview of Commedia Dell'Arte -- Voice, Movement, Character and Emotion -- Transition -- Tudor Drama -- Acting Tudor Drama -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Commedia Dell'Arte -- Suggested Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- 12 Elizabethan and Shakespearean Style: Virtuosity -- Overview of the English Renaissance in Theatre -- Shakespeare -- The Man, The Theatre, The Art, The Acting -- Voice, Gesture and Movement, Character and Emotion, Dance and Music -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Elizabethan and Shakespearean Style -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- Notes -- 13 Seventeenth-Century French Neoclassicism: Restraint Again -- Overview of French Neoclassicism (Seventeenth Century) -- Voice French Neoclassic Tragedy, Movement French Neoclassic Tragedy, Character and Emotion French Neoclassic Tragedy, Voice French Neoclassic Comedy, Movement French Neoclassic Comedy, Character and Emotion French Neoclassic Comedy -- Music and Translations -- French Neoclassicism -- Suggested Characters and Playsfor Scene Work -- Actor Checklist French Neoclassic Tragedy (Racine) -- Actor Checklist French Neoclassic Comedy (Moliere) -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- 14 Restoration Comedy: Vitality -- Overview of Restoration Comedy -- Voice, Movement, Character and Emotion -- Transition -- Eighteenth-Century Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century Romanticism and Melodrama -- Movement toward Realism -- Acting in Romantic Plays and Melodramas -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Additional Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Restoration Comedy -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- Note -- 15 Realism and Naturalism: Selectivity and Photographic Detail -- Overview of Realism -- Overview of Naturalism -- Voice, Movement, Character and Emotion -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Realism and Naturalism -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- 16 Early Twentieth-Century Nonrealism: Distortion-A New Reality -- Overview of Nonrealism -- Voice, Movement, Character and Emotion -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Early Twentieth-Century Nonrealism -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- Note -- 17 Brecht and Epic Style: Didacticism -- Overview of Brecht Epic Theatre-From Illusion to Fact and Social Action -- Asian Influence on Brecht, Voice, Movement, Character and Emotion -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Brecht Epic Theatre -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- 18 Absurd:Beyond Reason -- Overview of Existential, the Absurd -- Voice, Movement, Character and Emotion -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Absurd -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- 19 Eclectic: Intermingling -- Overview of Eclectic -- Voice, Movement, Character and Emotion -- Suggested Characters and Plays for Scene Work -- Actor Checklist Eclectic -- Selective Readings -- Suggested Filmography -- Note -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Glossary -- Credits -- Index |
| Summary |
Centering - Focusing - Speaking - Auditioning - Restoration comedy - Realism and naturalism - Didactism - Absurd - Eclectic |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Acting.
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| Author |
Hurst, Catherine, author
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Lugering, Michael, author
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| LC no. |
94072076 |
| ISBN |
0697201333 |
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9780697201331 |
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