Acting realism : theory and practice from Garrick to Meisner and beyond / Stephen Bayly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayly, Stephen, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--Study and teaching--History.

Acting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen Drama, 2026.

Summary:

If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you. Who are the great teachers and theorists of dramatic art? What methods are associated with which practitioners? How does their work connect to one another? When was 'realism' as a concept born? How did David Garrick's ideas about acting impact those of Stanislavski, Grotowski and Brecht? What were the foundational ideas of Joan Littlewood? All of these questions and many, many more are answered in this book, which offers a refreshingly accessible survey of the major acting teachers from the early 1700s up to the present day. It looks at what their major influences were, where their ideas came from and their legacy. Structured by practitioner and arranged in chronological order, this much-needed book brings together the foundational acting theories that have shaped the arts scene for centuries.

Contents:

Skinning the Cat

The Realm of Realism

David Garrick 1717-1779

Denis Diderot 1713-1784

From Russia with Love

Eleonora Duse 1858-1924

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko 1858-1943

Adolphe Appia 1862-1928

Konstantin Stanislavski 1863-1938

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze 1865-1950

Frederick Matthias Alexander 1869-1955

Gordon Craig 1872-1966

Vsevolod Meyerhold 1874-1940

Maria Ouspenskaya 1876-1949

Jacques Copeau 1879-1949

Rudolf Laban 1879-1958

Yevgeny Vakhtangov 1883-1922

Nikolai Demidov 1884-1953

Charles Dullin 1885-1949

Richard Boleslavsky (The American Lab Theatre) 1889-1937

Michael Chekhov 1891-1955

Erwin Piscator 1893-1966

Antonin Artaud 1896-1948

Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Sergei Eisenstein 1898-1948

Lee Strasberg 1901-1982

Harold Clurman 1901-1980

Stella Adler 1901-1992

Moshe Feldenkrais 1904-1984

Sanford Meisner 1905-1997

Viola Spolin 1906-1994

Robert Lewis 1909-1997

Elia Kazan 1909-2003

Joan Littlewood 1914-2002

Uta Hagen 1919-2004

Jacques Lecoq 1921-1999

Sidney Lumet 1924-2011

Peter Brook 1925-2022

Julian Beck 1925-1985

Judith Malina (The Living Theater) 1926-2015

Augusto Boal 1931-2009

Susana Bloch (Alba-emoting™) 1931-

Jerzy Grotowski 1933-1999

Sydney Pollack 1934-2008

Charles Marowitz 1934-2014

Joseph Chaikin (The Open Theatre) 1935-2003

Eugenio Barba 1936-

Tadashi Suzuki 1939-

Anne Bogart 1951-

David Mamet 1947-

Simon McBurney (Théâtre de Complicité) 1957-

The Neighborhood Playhouse 1915-1927, 1928-

The Group Theater 1931-1941

The Actors Studio 1947-

Dramatic Realism in Cinema

Arrival of the Talkies 1927

Socialist Realism 1934-1991

Poetic Realism 1930-1939

Italian Neo-Realism 1943-1952

Satyajit Ray 1921-1992

Kitchen Sink Drama (British Social Realism) 1956-1970

John Cassavetes 1929-2008

Ken Loach 1936-

John Sayles 1950-

Sean Baker 1971-

Neo Neo-Realism

Magic Realism

Errors and Omissions.

Other Format:

Print version: Bayly, Stephen. Acting realism

ISBN:

1350320234

1350339253

9781350320239

9781350339255

OCLC:

1520505893