Act : the modern actor's handbook / David Rotenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rotenberg, David (David Charles), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--Vocational guidance.

Acting.

Acting--Auditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2021]

Summary:

One of the world's foremost acting teachers -- who taught such actors as Rachel McAdams, Tatiana Maslany, Scott Speedman, and Sarah Gadon to name but a few -- shares 30-plus years of insight into the art of acting.

"A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher. Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America's most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg's techniques: states of being, primaries and secondaries, images that you elaborate up or distill down, modifiers, actions and beats, and more. Although his methods loosely draw on the great acting teachers like Hagen and Meisner back to Stanislavski, he teaches new techniques suited to the best of today's screen actors. This is a major new work in the actor's library and will be pulled off the shelf time and again to find that key into a scene, to prepare for an audition, or to find that right technique to make the art come alive again."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Copyright

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Use of Pronouns in this Text

A Word or Two of Introduction

A Quick Word About Technique

A Quick Word About the Biz

Chapter 1: Getting Present

Chapter 2: The Principles

Chapter 3: Principle #1 - Actors Must Be Able to Direct Themselves

Chapter 4: States of Being

Chapter 5: The Playing of Actions

Chapter 6: Images

Chapter 7: Tool #1 - Keying

Chapter 8: Principle #2 - Be Compelling, Not Necessarily Right

Chapter 9: Tool #2 - Drone Noting

Chapter 10: Some Notes on Character

Chapter 11: Principle #3 -Modern Acting Is About Selecting Not Pretending

Chapter 12: A Tangent - The Voice in Your Head

Chapter 13: Principle #4 -No Neutral Mask

Chapter 14: The Elephant in the Room

Chapter 15: Principle #5 -Icon and Action Not the Word

Chapter 16: Principle #6 -Naturalism Not Realism

Chapter 17: Auditions

Chapter 18: When the Moon's Too Thin for Stories

Appendix: Exercises

An Afterword

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77305-729-4

OCLC:

1203368244