Actor training / edited by Alison Hodge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodge, Alison, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--Study and teaching.

Acting.

Drama--Study and teaching.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised. In addition, eight more practitioners are included - and forty more photographs - to create a stunningly comprehensive study. The practitioners included are:Stella Adler; Eugeni

Contents:

Stanislavsky's system : pathways for the actor / Sharon Marie Carnicke

Meyerhold and Biomechanics / Robert Leach

Jacques Copeau : the quest for sincerity / John Rudlin

Michael Chekhov on the technique of acting : "was Don Quixote true to life?" / Franc Chamberlain

Michel Saint-Denis : training the complete actor / Jane Baldwin

The Knebel technique : active analysis in practice / Sharon Marie Carnicke

Brecht and actor training : on whose behalf do we act? / Peter Thomson

- Joan Littlewood / Clive Barker

Strasberg, Adler and Meisner : method acting / David Krasner

Joseph Chaikin and aspects of actor training : possibilities rendered present / Dorinda Hulton

Peter Brook : transparency and the invisible network / Lorna Marshall and David Williams

Grotowski's vision of the actor : the search for contact / Lisa Wolford

Training for play, lightness and disobedience in the pedagogies of Jacques Lecoq, Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier / Simon Murray

Training with Eugenio Barba : acting principles, the pre-expressive and "personal temperature" / Ian Watson

Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil : theatricalising history; the theatre as metaphor; the actor as signifier / Helen E. Richardson

Wlodzimierz Staniewski : Gardzienice: the naturalised actor / Alison Hodge

Creating the moment : Anne Bogart, SITI Company and actor training / Royd Climenhaga

Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed / Frances Babbage.

Notes:

Previously published under title: Twentieth century acting training, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-17382-6

1-282-57584-8

9786612575846

0-203-86137-X

9781135173838

9780203861370

OCLC:

609589023