Acting : Advanced Techniques for the Actor, Director and Teacher.
Honed by the author's 35 years of teaching, this advanced book offers different warm-up exercises concentrating on the actor's sense of smell, sound, sight, and touch; sensory tools for conveying the climate and environment of the text; tips for suggesting a character's physical condi...
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New York :
Constable & Robinson,
2012.
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Edward Norton; Preface; A Note on Personal Pronouns; Methodology; My Experience; No "One" Technique; An Actor's Toolbox; Mind, Heart, Will; PART I: PROCEDURE; Chapter 1: Relaxation; Tension-The Enemy of the Actor; "To Be Seen" Body Work; "To Be Heard" Vocal Work; Warm-Up Program; Chapter 2: Concentration; The Senses-Five Powerful Tools; Chapter 3: Imagination; Sidebar: Finding Emotional Resolution; Chapter 4: Preparation; Body and Voice; The Actor's Notebook; Memorization; Sidebar: Backward Way to Construct a Sentence; Monologues.
- Class and Rehearsal SpaceA Note for Leaders; PART II: GROUP EXERCISES; Relaxing into the Floor; "Hard" Chairs; Chapter 5: General Sensory Exercises; Height; Floating; Beach/Sunning/Water; Animal Exercises; Sidebar: The Snow Leopard; Meal; Cave; Sidebar: Alone in a Cave; Mixed Sound/Smell; Chapter 6: Personal Sensory Exercises; Baby Exercise; Age Exercise; The Place Exercise (Room/Closet/Chest/Attic/Basement); Face; Shower; Chapter 7: Physical-Condition Exercises; An Actor's Secret; Cold; Sidebar: One Hundred Degrees, and I'm Freezing; Heat; Drunkenness; Drugs; Pain.
- Sidebar: Pain, Shin Splints, and the High School Basketball BenchBlindness; Deafness; Don't Go Alone; Other Impairment; Insanity; Sidebar: Insanity, Anger, and My Hair; Conclusion; PART III: INDIVIDUAL EXERCISES; A Note for Leaders; Chapter 8: Creating A Character-The Spoon River Exercise; Spoon River, Part One-Introduction to the Character; Sidebar: Mrs. Sibley Said Nothing, and Everything; Spoon River, Part Two-Animal Work and "Psychological Center"; Sidebar: Rose Ritz, Fancy Peacock; Chapter 9: Making A Scene: The A.C.T. (Action/Condition/Telephone Call); Activity; Physical Condition.
- Sidebar: Sisterly LovePreparation and Rehearsal; Telephone Call; A.C.T. in Class; Sidebar: Cleaning Up, the Hangover, and the Confession; What We've Learned; Chapter 10: Freeing the Instrument-The Fallout and the Song Exercise; A Note for Leaders; Fallout; Sidebar: The Fallout-A Way to Warm Up; Song Exercise; A Note on Leading the Fallout and Song Exercise; What We've Learned; Chapter 11: Exploring the Subconscious-Emotional Recall; Emotional Recall, Part One; Sidebar: Blowout on the Soccer Field; Emotional Recall, Part Two; Emotional Recall, Part Three; Emotional Recall, Part Four.
- A Note for LeadersWhat We've Learned; Chapter 12: Validating The Self-The Private Moment; Practical Purpose; Before Class-Choosing Private Moments-The Storyboard; What Is a Private Moment?; Parts One and Two; Private Moment-Preparation; Sidebar: Opening Up a Sensual Side; Performing the Private Moment, Parts One and Two; Private Moment, Part Three; Sidebar: The Private Moment, Years Later, On Stage; Sidebar: Tipping Point of a Career; Character Private Moments; Sidebar: A Gut-Wrenching Moment; What We've Learned; PART IV: SCENE STUDY; Chapter 13: Assigning Scenes; Rules for Rehearsal.