| Description |
xxvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Stanislavsky's system: pathways for the actor / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- Meyerhold and Biomechanics / Robert Leach -- Jacques Copeau: the quest for sincerity / John Rudlin -- / Michael Chekhov on the technique of acting: "was Don Quixote true to life?" / Franc Chamberlain -- Michel Saint-Denis: training the complete actor / Jane Baldwin -- The Knebel technique: active analysis in practice / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- Brecht and actor training: on whose behalf do we act? / Peter Thomson -- Joan Littlewood / Clive Barker -- Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: method acting / David Krasner -- Joseph Chaikin and aspects of actor training: possibilities rendered present / Dorinda Hulton -- Peter Brook: transparency and the invisible network / Lorna Marshall and David Williams -- Grotowski's vision of the actor: the search for contact / Lisa Wolford -- Jacques Lecoq, Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier: training for play, lightness and disobedience / Simon Murray -- Training with Eugenio Barba: acting principles, the pre-expressive and "personal temperature" / Ian Watson -- Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: theatricalising history; the theatre as metaphor; the actor as signifier / Helen E. Richardson -- Włodzimierz Staniewski : Gardzienice and the naturalised actor / Aison Hodge -- Anne Bogart and SITI Company: creating the moment / Royd Climenhaga -- Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed / Frances Babbage |
| Summary |
This edition radically updates the original book, making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training |
| Notes |
Previous ed. published under title: Twentieth century actor training, 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Acting -- Study and teaching.
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| Reading List |
ACP109 prescribed text 2024
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| Author |
Hodge, Alison, 1959- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2009028309 |
| ISBN |
0415471672 (hb) (alkaline paper) |
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0415471680 (pb) (alkaline paper) |
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9780415471671 (hb) (alkaline paper) |
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9780415471688 (pb) (alkaline paper) |
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