A Field Guide To Actor Training

Author : Laura Wayth
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780879109066

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(Limelight). A Field Guide to Actor Training will help you answer this question! The book is designed to be an introduction to various theater training methodologies, highlighting their basic tenets and comparing and contrasting each system of training and rehearsal. The goal is to provide a one-stop-shopping kind of resource for student/beginning actors who are seeking training through private studios or graduate schools and who crave guidance in selecting training that is right for them. Starting with the big question of "Why is actor training important?" and moving on to overviews of the major acting methodologies, vocal training, physical actor training, and advice on how to find the right kind of training for each individual, A Field Guide to Actor Training is an essential resource for the student actor.

Author : Laura Wayth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780879109073

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A Field Guide to Actor Training by Laura Wayth Pdf

(Limelight). A Field Guide to Actor Training will help you answer this question! The book is designed to be an introduction to various theater training methodologies, highlighting their basic tenets and comparing and contrasting each system of training and rehearsal. The goal is to provide a one-stop-shopping kind of resource for student/beginning actors who are seeking training through private studios or graduate schools and who crave guidance in selecting training that is right for them. Starting with the big question of "Why is actor training important?" and moving on to overviews of the major acting methodologies, vocal training, physical actor training, and advice on how to find the right kind of training for each individual, A Field Guide to Actor Training is an essential resource for the student actor.

Author : Ed Hooks
Publisher : Backstage Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Acting
ISBN : 0823001156

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The Actor's Field Guide by Ed Hooks Pdf

From a veteran actor, teacher, and author, here is a quick-reference guide aimed at working actors. Got a funny scene that doesn't seem very funny? Look up "comedy." Got a scene in which you're supposed to cry? Look up "cry." Each entry includes a brief introduction to the topic, followed by several pages of short, bulleted tips or "field notes" that offer quick solutions to any acting problem. In addition, there are brief essays throughout that expand on some of the trickier aspects of the actor's craft. Edgy, concise, and infinitely helpful, no working actor will want to be without this one-of-a-kind guide. There are 100,000 members in actors unions in the US, with a 50% turnover Unique quick reference guide for busy actors Advice on everything from rehersals to auditioning and memorizing lines Author has trained thousands of actors, including Heather Locklear and Teri Hatcher Advertising inBack Stagemagazine

Author : Laura Wayth
Publisher : Compact Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848429983

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Breaking Down Your Script: The Compact Guide by Laura Wayth Pdf

This clear, concise and practical guide provides actors with a structured and effective method for breaking down and understanding a performance script. It offers a flexible approach that works with plays from any period or genre, with television and film scripts, and even when preparing for your audition. Inside, you'll find the tools you need for every step of the process, from making sense of the whole script, to breaking it down scene by scene, through to detailed line-by-line analysis. There are strategies for exploring character arcs, objectives, beat shifts and subtext, as well as practical exercises and sample scenes from leading playwrights to help you put the concepts into action. Also included are worksheets you can use and reuse on all your future projects. Wherever you are in your acting career, this book is your essential working companion - giving you a method for tackling any script, and providing the foundation to take your performances to the next level. The Compact Guides are pocket-sized introductions for actors and theatremakers, each tackling a key topic in a clear and comprehensive way. Written by industry professionals with extensive hands-on experience of their subject, they provide you with maximum information in minimum time.

Author : Brian Ness,Megan Rodgers
Publisher : Chicago Plays
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1568500432

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Actor's Training Guide by Brian Ness,Megan Rodgers Pdf

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137607737

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Approaches to Actor Training by John Freeman Pdf

This insightful and practically-focused collection brings together different approaches to actor training from professionals based at universities and conservatoires in the UK, the US and Australia. Exploring the cultural and institutional differences which affect actor training, and analysing developments in the field today, it addresses a range of different approaches, from Stanislavski's System to contemporary immersive theatre. With hands-on focus from some of the world's leading programmes, and attention paid to ethical control, consent and safe practice, this book sees expert tutors exploring pathways to sustainable 21st century careers. Designed for tutors, students and practitioners, Approaches to Actor Training examines what it means to train as an actor, what actors-in-training can expect from their programmes of study and how the road to professional accomplishment is mapped and travelled.

Author : Alison Hodge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415194518

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Twentieth Century Actor Training by Alison Hodge Pdf

THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS TITLE, ENTITLED ACTOR TRAINING, IS NOW AVAILABLE. Actor training is arguably the central phenomenon of twentieth century theatre making. Here for the first time, the theories, training exercises and productions of fourteen directors are analysed in a single volume, each one written by a leading expert. The practitioners included are: * Stella Adler * Bertolt Brecht * Joseph Chaikin * Jacques Copeau * Joan Littlewood * Vsevelod Meyerhold * Konstantin Stanislavsky * Eugenio Barba * Peter Brook * Michael Chekhov * Jerzy Grotowski * Sanford Meisner * Wlodimierz Staniewski * Lee Strasbourg Each chapter provides a unique account of specific training exercises and an analysis of their relationship to the practitioners theoretical and aesthetic concerns. The collection examines the relationship between actor training and production and considers how directly the actor training relates to performance. With detailed accounts of the principles, exercises and their application to many of the landmark productions of the past hundred years, this book will be invaluable to students, teachers, practitioners, and academics alike.

Author : Mohan Gopinath,Vellinezhi Achuthan Kutty,Nagesh Bharadwaj,Asha Prabhakaran,Sabina Zacharias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527579019

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Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare by Mohan Gopinath,Vellinezhi Achuthan Kutty,Nagesh Bharadwaj,Asha Prabhakaran,Sabina Zacharias Pdf

This book is written for all lovers of the performing arts, especially those who love Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala, the southern state in India. While other texts have been written about the history of the dance drama in English, this book uniquely brings in Shakespearean plays and characters, comparing them to the stories and characters in Kathakali to give it a completely new perspective.

Author : Dick McCaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350046481

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Rethinking the Actor's Body by Dick McCaw Pdf

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor's Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an actor does with their body. Built on almost a decade of conversations and public seminars by the author Dick McCaw in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology at University College London, UK), Rethinking the Actor's Body explores a set of questions and preoccupations concerning the actor's body and examines overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training, embodied knowledge and neurophysiology.

Author : John Harrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Acting
ISBN : OCLC:1011720816

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Acting with Style by John Harrop Pdf

Recognized as a classic in its field, Acting with Style continues to be an invaluable guide to the process of approaching plays. The Third Edition retains all of the significant facts, data, information, and exercises, and offers a clear and warm writing style that expresses a sensitivity to the needs of actors. In addition to presenting the physical approach to actor training, the authors encourage readers to use the text materials and concepts with creativity and imagination, asserting that the process of discovering language is not limited to one specific time, place, or culture.

Author : Alison Hodge (Hrsg.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:839787091

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Twentieth Century Actor Training by Alison Hodge (Hrsg.) Pdf

Author : Alex Clifton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472531803

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The Actor’s Workbook by Alex Clifton Pdf

The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting. The book presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting skills, offers techniques for developing an authored role and models for devising new work. These techniques are based on the practices of Konstantin Stanislavski and his recent theatrical descendants including Uta Hagen, Sanford Meisner, Michael Chekhov and others. The exercises in the book are outlined in a student-centred approach, offering not only in-class exercises, but also pre-class exercises, educational frameworks, teaching-tips, suggested texts through which to apply the work, follow-up exercises and suggestions for further reading in each chapter. Enabling and guiding the actor's sustainable, communicable, believable transformation into an imagined reality, this workbook is filled with powerful and precise acting tools, each underpinned by a rigorous and well-explained philosophy of practice. The Actor's Workbook includes video of the author teaching the exercises, with professional actors demonstrating the techniques to be learned.

Author : Mark Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Acting
ISBN : 041582401X

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The Actor Training Reader by Mark Evans Pdf

The Actor Training Reader is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of acting, offering access to a wide range of key texts that identify, explore, illuminate and interrogate the challenges, practices and processes involved in training the modern actor. A companion volume to the highly-acclaimed Actor Training (Hodge 2010), this book collects key writings by influential actor training practitioners of the twentieth century, introduced with essays from leading academics in the field of actor training. Key practitioners included are: Eugenio Barba; Anne Bogart; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Brook; Michael Chekhov; and Konstantin Stanislavsky. The book sets established, widely used texts alongside less well-known ones in order to trace the development of actor training from the pioneering advances of Eastern Europe to the acting games of Augusto Boal. The texts are grouped into thematic sections rather than chronologically in order to encourage a comparison of different approaches to similar aspects of the craft. Each section will have a specially commissioned introductory essay by an expert in that area of actor training, which will bring context, critical engagement and contemporary relevance to the extracts and offer provocations for further discussion.

Author : Alison Hodge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135173821

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Actor Training by Alison Hodge Pdf

Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised. In addition, eight more practitioners are included - and forty more photographs - to create a stunningly comprehensive study. The practitioners included are: Stella Adler; Eugenio Barba; Augusto Boal; Anne Bogart; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Brook; Michael Chekhov; Joseph Chaikin; Jacques Copeau; Philippe Gaulier; Jerzy Grotowski; Maria Knebel; Jacques Lecoq; Joan Littlewood; Sanford Meisner; Vsevolod Meyerhold; Ariane Mnouchkine; Monika Pagneux; Michel Saint-Denis; Włodzimierz Staniewski; Konstantin Stanislavsky; Lee Strasberg The historical, cultural and political context of each practitioner’s work is clearly set out by leading experts and accompanied by an incisive and enlightening analysis of the main principles of their training, practical exercises and key productions. This book is an invaluable introduction to the principles and practice of actor training and its role in shaping modern theatre.

Author : Alex Clifton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1472526090

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The Actor's Workbook by Alex Clifton Pdf

This is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training, and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting. The book presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting skills, offers techniques for developing an authored role and models for devising new work.