Download or read book The Actor And The Text written by Cicely Berry and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is world-famous for her voice teaching. The Actor and the Text is her classic book, distilled from years of working with actors of the highest calibre.
Download or read book Text In Action written by Cicely Berry and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the widely acclaimed The Actor and the Text - which was addressed directly to the actor - Text in Action is drawn from Cicely's group work experiences, encompassing the viewpoint of the director as well. To begin with, the author explores language from a cultural and personal perspective. In these days of management jargon and internet technology are we losing touch with the ability to communicate fully?' Is the deeper imaginative world being left unexpressed? The main body of the book contains detailed, practical exercises for actors and directors during the rehearsal process. All exercises will be tied to specific scenes, leading to a fuller exploration of the rext. Text In Action analyses the imagery of plays, speech structures, the physicality of language and emphasises the importance of finding a collective voice. Cicely's guidance on the matter of voice will help actors find relationships and situations through the text in a unique way, in order to make it more dynamic and creative.
Download or read book The Actor and His Text written by Cicely Berry and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Actor and His Text written by Cicely Berry and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Actor s Eye written by David Downs and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). With this landmark compilation of classes and exercises, anyone can afford to be coached by the man whose students are propelled from his legendary classes at Northwestern University to Broadway and Hollywood. "Acting is as simple as brick-laying and as great as Leonardo da Vinci's art," writes Downs. The Downs approach coaches the actor to make the essential connections between his character and the forces that govern him so that "craft is inevitable and art is made possible."
Download or read book Acting With Text written by Paul Wagar and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classical approach to actor training
Download or read book Freeing Shakespeare s Voice written by Kristin Linklater and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own.
Download or read book Voice and the Actor written by Cicely Berry and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice and the Actor is the first classic work by Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and world-famous voice teacher. Encapsulating her renowned method of teaching voice production, the exercises in this straightforward, no-nonsense guide will develop relaxation, breathing and muscular control - without which no actor or speaker can achieve their full potential.Illustrated with passages used in Cicely Berry's own teaching, Voice and the Actor is the essential first step towards speaking a text with truth and meaning. Inspiring and practical, her words will be a revelation for beginner and professional alike.
Download or read book The Actor and the Target written by Declan Donnellan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clues to Acting Shakespeare written by Wesley Van Tassel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A workhorse of a workbook!"—Library Journal. American actors, fear Shakespeare no more! Through a series of inspiring, easy-to-follow exercises, an acclaimed director and drama coach shows both students and experienced actors how to break down the verse, support the words, understand the images, and use the text to create vibrant, living performances. This popular guide—more than TK,000 copies sold—has been revised and expanded to include the unique challenges facing teachers and their students in performing Shakespeare’s works, as well as time-tested tools for overcoming these obstacles. Effective delivery, correct breathing, scansion, phrasing, structure and rhythm, caesura, and more are covered. For text analysis and character interpretation, both classical British training and American methods are explored. In addition to ongoing, long-term practice exercises, Clues to Acting Shakespeare offers a one-day brush-up section to prep actors cast to play Shakespearean roles immediately. • Long term practice exercises and quick one-day brush-ups for auditions Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Download or read book The Art of Acting written by Dawn Langman and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be invaluable to teachers, acting students and practitioners alike. Langman’s inspired methods, fed by some 45 years of teaching and practice, ensure the highest outcomes for the integration of voice, speech and language as a central ingredient of the actor’s craft. She is the most unique and brilliant master teacher in this area I have ever encountered.’ – Rosalba Clemente, Head of Acting, Drama Centre, Flinders University ‘A rite de passage – working with Langman’s book is an initiation into the practice of “Future Theatre”.’ – Dr Jane Gilmer, Assistant Professor of Drama, VPA, National Institute of Education, Singapore A remarkable achievement that communicates a lifetime of teaching artistry with grace and depth, and, most significantly, reveals the profound spiritual impulses at the heart of Michael Chekhov’s original impulse. A gift for the generations.’ – Dr Diane Caracciolo, Associate Professor of Educational Theatre, Adelphi University Over the past decades there has been a resurgence of interest in Chekhov’s acting technique. The original publishers of his fundamental text, To the Actor, removed most of the author’s references to Rudolf Steiner, but recent studies acknowledge Chekhov’s personal interest in anthroposophy as the source of his artistic inspiration. Dawn Langman explores the fundamentals of Chekhov’s psycho-physical technique and the metaphysical principles on which it is based. She examines this technique in relation to the specific challenges and gifts provided by the actor’s constitution of body, soul and spirit, and in the context of the canon of great poetic and dramatic texts – illuminated by Steiner’s insights into humanity’s evolving consciousness. The Art of Acting lays the foundation for the second and third books in her series, in which Langman explores Rudolf Steiner’s art of speech and its integration with Michael Chekhov’s methodology. Together, these books offer a contemporary, spiritually-enlivened path of development for the actor, in which the combined insights of Steiner and Chekhov lead to new possibilities for the performing arts.
Download or read book The Actor s and Intelligent Reader s Guide to the Language of Shakespeare written by Richard DiPrima and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author s Note: This book is intended to help the actor or intelligent reader master the forms of Shakespeare s language. Anyone who acts Shakespeare s plays well must have a confident feel for the language of his plays. Anyone who reads his plays well must be a Shakespearean actor deep inside his or her mind! It has been my honor, as founder and director of The Young Shakespeare Players, to direct thousands of actors in full-length Shakespeare roles. My experience with these players -- from age 7 to 80, with most between 13 and 18 -- has helped tell me what the serious Shakespeare actor or reader must grasp. Our young actors always quickly understood that they needed to start to make Shakespeare s language their own. They always especially emphasized the resonance of his words, and their precise and evocative beauty. I find inadequacies in published works on understanding and using Shakespeare s language. Some are overly simplified, or even wrong-headed. Some are excellent, but simply do not go far enough. They tend, for example, to take an element of Shakespeare s writing craft (say, his use of verse rhythm or antitheses), explain its meaning briefly, give a few examples, and move quickly on. Often, the actor/reader leaves with too little experience to apply this knowledge the next time the element crops up. We need, instead, a way for the serious actor or reader to immerse in the key elements of Shakespeare s text, so that each becomes familiar and instantly recognizable. And so, we developed the RISARA model, which is the basis of this book. The RISARA model RISARA is an acronym for six major ways in which Shakespeare shaped and varied the language of his plays: R - Rhythm and stress. Shakespeare wrote most of the lines in his plays in verse -- language formed into expected rhythm patterns and line lengths. Then he regularly broke the rules of his own verse form. The R in RISARA leads the actor/reader to ask: Does the rhythm vary from the regular pattern or normal line length? If so, why? Can this variation help us more clearly understand the meaning? I - Imagery. Shakespeare's movie cameras and special effects were he words, spoken by the actors; and his screens were the ears and minds of the audience. What pictures do Shakespeare s words evoke? How does the imagery help define the emotions and characterizations in his plays? S - Sound. In Shakespeare s time, language was more important for how it sounded than for how it looked on a page. Does the sound of Shakespeare s words add to the feeling of the passage being read? How does the actor/reader use it to enhance the meaning? A - Antitheses. Shakespeare used no figure of speech to greater effect than antithesis -- the formal contrast set up to sharpen and guide the thinking of character and audience alike. In any passage, does Shakespeare emphasize his meaning by comparing antithetical words or ideas? Do such comparisons need special emphasis to bring out the meaning? R - Repetition. Schoolchildren in Shakespeare s time were thoroughly trained in rhetoric and formal figures of repetition. Shakespeare often used these to strengthen a passage by repeating certain sounds, or words, or whole phrases. We need to ask: How did he use repetition in this passage? How does the repetition enhance the mood or character or image? A - Architecture. Shakespeare built a kind of architecture into his words in other ways -- from changes of direction in speeches, to phrasing of individual verse lines, to shifts between prose and verse, and much more. How do these architectural elements add to the meaning or feelings of the scene, or speech, or passage? What can the actor/reader do to emphasize these architectural features?"
Download or read book Shakespeare s Clown written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the clown Will Kemp, this book shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists wrote specific roles as vehicles for him.
Download or read book Tackling Text and Subtext written by Barbara Houseman and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for students, actors and teachers, on how to cope with text, character and situation.
Download or read book The Anatomy of a Choice written by Maura Vaughn and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does an actor bring a script to life? The actor must know how to read a script, break it down, and mine all of its clues in order to make the most effective choices. The Anatomy of a Choice: An Actor's Guide to Text Analysis offers the actor a concrete method for approaching a script. This guide details a simple process to discover and define a character's scene and super-objective, obstacle, beats, and tactics. It includes practical information on how to build a character, how best to use rehearsal time, and what to do when nothing is working.
Download or read book The Dramatic Text Workbook and Video written by David Carey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drama begins with the word. Characters, plot, conflict, genre - all are created through language. An ability to understand how language works is invaluable: actors need to learn not only how to use their voice, but how to use voice and language together. The Dramatic Text Workbook is a textbook which explores the expressive potential of language, and how you as an actor can develop your verbal skills to release that potential. Written by acclaimed voice teachers David Carey and Rebecca Clark Carey (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, RADA) this book provides practical approaches to each aspect of verbal expression with the aid of classical and modern scenes and speeches. Chapters include: ] Sound: speech sounds and how to use them more expressively ] Image: bring life and specificity to images when you speak ] Sense: focus on the most significant words and phrases in a speech or scene ] Rhythm: how rhythm is created and used in both verse and prose ] Argument: the structure or logic of language A follow-up to The Dramatic Text Workbook, and now including a revised introduction, updated reading lists and a comprehensive revision of the major exercises within the book, it is supported by over 90 minutes of online video workshops, exploring the key techniques and tactics explored in the book"--
Download or read book Shakespearean Characterization written by Leslie O'Dell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays were written some four hundred years ago, and while his characters are enduring, they are also alien. In grappling with the text of his plays, the modern actor must bring Shakespeare's Renaissance characters to life for a modern audience. And while it is difficult enough for twentieth-century spectators to make sense of the plays, it is also hard for modern actors to understand the Elizabethan world that created the personalities so vividly sketched in Shakespeare's texts. This reference is a convenient and practical guide for actors faced with the task of playing Shakespeare's characters. The volume begins with an overview of Elizabethan theatrical conventions, including the training of actors. It then looks at the dramatic tradition of personification, which Shakespeare's world inherited from the medieval stage. Later chapters give special attention to how language reveals character and to the social and cultural contexts of the Renaissance. Throughout, the emphasis is on how to translate Shakespeare's text into action on the stage. While the volume contains much useful information, that information is presented to meet the special needs of theater professionals.
