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Acting and Reacting: Tools for the Modern Actor
No full textAn inspiring new approach to acting from a respected drama teacher - concise, succinct and full of practical exercises.
Acting and Reacting establshes a new, intensely practical actor-training system incorporating the best of Stanislavsky, David Mamet and Sanford Meisner. Starting wtih the technique of Transactional Improvisation, it covers topics such as:
* The World of the Play
* Inhabiting the Space
* Learning to Trust Your Body
* Approaches to Text
The result is a punchy and empowering book intended to shake up ideas about acting. Each theory is tested and reinforced with games and exercises that stretch and challenge the student actor at each stage. Acting and Reacting is a must for drama teachers and drama students alike
Trans-Global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries
No full textGathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work. Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work
Performing Place: The Caer Llan Trilogy
No full textThe Caer Llan Trilogy comprised three annual performance intensive events of 4-5 days each over the August Bank Holidays, 2002-04 (with gestation periods between). These were:
- Caer Llan 1: The Caer Llan Sestina (2002);
- Caer Llan 2: Disrupting the Landscape (2003);
- Caer Llan 3: Performing Place (2004).
The format of the intensives varied. The first and second ended with outcomes to an invited audience, for example; the third comprised peer-viewed group and individual practical ‘responses’ across the five days. Originally, the research project was intended to be for one year, the Caer Llan Sestina of 2002. It became apparent, however, even before the first intensive commenced, that a trilogy would offer greater research opportunities.
The CLT was established to explore the performance of place. What might comprise a performance of place? Were there different impulses, processes or realisations in the performance of place to, say, site-specific performance, for example? This was part of a long term research interest into place and performance stemming from the late 1990s. The project at Caer Llan provided an opportunity to explore certain facets of the performance of place in explicit detail. The key research questions of the Trilogy were, broadly:
- To what extent can performance impact upon participants’ understanding of place?
- Can performance have a function in articulating place?
Rooted in current and recent theories of place, the CLT provides a case study of place-related performance praxis, therefore
Essentials of Stage Management
No full textGood stage management is key to the smooth running of any theatrical production and, as technology continues to develop and regulations tighten, the responsibilities of the stage manager have never been greater. In this essential guide, Peter Maccoy examines the qualities and skills necessary for effective management, stressing the importance of understanding both the creative and the technical processes involved in theatre. From negotiating contracts through to rehearsals, performance and post-production, Essentials of Stage Management is packed with invaluable advice on every aspect of the job and every type of theatre. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/essentials-of-stage-management-9780713665284/#sthash.YtgUMzrU.dpu
Introduction
No full textA second collection of plays by the legendary French contemporary playwright. In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (1987) is an extraordinary duologue between two men who meet randomly on the street and who find themselves locked in a struggle between life and death. Quai Ouest and Sallinger are both set in North America and provide extraordinarily prescient insight into America's relationship with outsiders. The Night Before the Forests is a soul-searching monologue addressed to an unseen audience whose identity is never fully discovered, although it is constantly in question
"Other" Spanish Theatres: Erasure and Inscription on the Twentieth-Century Spanish Stage
No full text'Other' Spanish Theatres challenges established opinions on modern Iberian theatre in considering the roles of contrasting figures and companies who have impacted upon both the practice and the perception of Spanish, and European, stages. In examining the work of six carefully chosen case studies - Margarita Xirgu, Enrique Rambal, María Casares, Nuria Espert, Lluís Pasqual and La Cubana - Delgado offers a new interpretation of a nation's theatrical culture which has been viewed primarily through the prisms of a select number of revered playwrights. Offering a compelling case for the influence of Spanish practitioners on theatre in Europe and the Americas, the study focuses on the doing of performance, asking provocative questions around how performances are tested against the texts that remain
Drama, Landscape and Memory: To Be is to Be in Place
No full textThis paper is based on research that sought to identify the cognitive and emotive effect of a collaborative drama event that took place in a unique landscape. Particular leitmotifs emerged from the research concerning identity and groups, the resonance of landscape, collective and childhood memory and the particularity of site-specific theatre. In this paper the author deconstructs two of these: landscape and memory. The concluding theories suggest that events of this nature can offer a sense of 'being in place'. The paper draws on 2 years of qualitative research of a many-layered theatre education project taking place, annually, in Cornwall, England. Approximately 70 undergraduate students have taken this project to 3,500 primary school pupils, 100 primary school staff and 2,000 adult audience members each year; the practical research is drawn from all these participants, particularly the students
Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestos for a New Century
No full textA wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists and scholars from the UK, US and elsewhere. Offers an examination of how to make theatre in a time of crisis and why it is a vital form of communication are at the heart of the book's mission. Asks questions such as: where is theatre now taking place?; what is the relationship between play and performance?; how does funding work?; what states does theatre flourish under?; and if there is a current 'crisis of theatre' should it not be seen as a welcome opportunity to develop a vigorous 'theatre of crisis'?.
The international list of contributors includes Jim Carmody, Phyllis Nagy, Michael Billington, Max Stafford-Clark, Peter Sellars, Dragan Klaic, Goat Island, Erik Ehn and many others, making up a vast array of practising artists, thinkers, and scholars
Spanish Theatre: Strategies in Protest and Imagination
No full textThis book is a special edition of Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 7 - Part 3: Spanish Theatre 1920-1995, which Maria M. Delgado Guest Edited.
Contents
Directors of the Twentieth Century Spanish Stage
by María Francisca Vilches de Frutos
Twentieth-Century Spanish Stage Design
by John London
The Function and Mission of Theatre: Ortega's 'Idea del teatro'
by Stephen G. H. Roberts
Enrique Rambal: The Forgotten 'Auteur' of Spanish Popular Theatre
by Maria M. Delgado (Item #638)
Spanish Sources of Fernando Arrabal's Theatre of the Grotesque: Goya, Valle-Inclán, and Buñuel
by Peter L. Podo