Synopsis
The Actor's Workbook Video - A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising
Published by Methuen
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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 Workbook presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting skills, offering 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 Workbook 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 URL Video links of the author teaching the exercises, with professional actors demonstrating the techniques to be learned
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A beginning
PART ONE: Play
Chapter One - Release
Chapter Two - Imagine
Chapter Three - Listen
Chapter Four - Pulse
Chapter Five - Impulse
PART TWO: Inhabit
Chapter One - Mapping a world
Chapter Two - Mapping a role
Chapter Three - Rehearsing a role
PART THREE: Devise
Chapter One - Deconstruct
Chapter Two - Construct
An ending