| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Allyn Burrows -- Prologue: 'To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores' -- Visions and revisions : the company is formed / Bella Merlin -- Bricks and mortar, trellis and trees : an aesthetic is realized / Bella Merlin -- Talk #1 : function of the theatre / Tina Packer -- Evolution and influences of the month-long intensive / Bella Merlin -- Talk #2 : actor/audience relationship / Tina Packer -- Voice work & basics / Bella Merlin -- Text work & dropping in / Bella Merlin -- Body work & bringing it all together / Bella Merlin -- Practical pedagogy / Bella Merlin -- Shakespeare-in-the-schools / Bella Merlin -- Shakespeare on the campus / Bella Merlin -- Shakespeare-in-the-courts / Bella Merlin -- The art form of performance / Bella Merlin -- Talk #3 : theatre, therapy and theology / Tina Packer -- Cymbeline : a performance case study / Bella Merlin & Tina Packer -- Epilogue: 'On such a full sea are we now afloat' |
| Summary |
"Shakespeare & Company is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What's his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company's aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material - including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries - and the Company's newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details:; Shakespeare & Company's founding and early history; Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre's principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight; and Actor/Audience Relationship; Vocational components of its Training intensives; Practical pedagogy of its Education programs; Insights into its unique approaches to Performance; Impact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training), Kevin G. Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director). Actors, directors, students, educators, scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies, inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over forty years"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Bella Merlin is an actor, professor of acting at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of six books on acting, including The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit and Facing the Fear: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright. Tina Packer is the multi-award-winning founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company, and has acted and/or directed all of Shakespeare's plays as well as touring her original take on Shakespeare's women, Women of Will. Her book of the same name was a New York Times Editor's Choice |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2020) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Mass.)
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Mass.) fast |
| Subject |
Theatrical companies -- Massachusetts -- Lenox
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Stagecraft.
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Theater
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Theatrical companies
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Massachusetts -- Lenox
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Packer, Tina, 1938- author.
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| LC no. |
2019053984 |
| ISBN |
9780429292231 |
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0429292236 |
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9781000047264 |
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1000047261 |
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9781000047271 |
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100004727X |
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9781000047257 |
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1000047253 |
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