Dreamwork for actors / Janet Sonenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonenberg, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Dreamwork for Actors brilliantly explores the potential of dreams for actor training and development. In this revolutionary book, Janet Sonenberg offers an entirely new technique for exploring imaginatively rich acting. Dreams are comprised of boundless imagination. Here Sonenberg demonstrates how the actor seeds dreams with material from the play under study and then uses the resulting dream to affect the acting. Drawing upon her wide experience as actor and director, Janet Sonenberg shows what dreamwork can do. No other acting technique offers the performer's own dreams as a means to profoundly deepen imaginative and artistic expression. This is a wholly new tool with which actors can unleash startling performances.

Contents:

Stories we tell ourselves

Next year let's work on your imagination

The pilgrimage to the temple

Prayers and offerings

The god is silent; the god speaks

Dream homeopathy

A machine and a miracle

Virtual reality

Rules for dreamworking the character's body.

Notes:

"A Theatre Arts book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0878301658

0878301666

OCLC:

50844190