Advanced Acting: Style, Character, and Performance - Rilegato

Cohen, Robert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0767425421 ISBN 13: 9780767425421

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2001

Riassunto

A follow-up to the best-selling introductory text Acting One, this text provides exercises and scenework in seven historical periods to help students extend their basic acting skills.

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Contenuti

Preface / Notes to Students and Instructors

Part I. The Exercises

Lesson 1: Style

Exercise 1-1 Baby Talk / Exercise 1-2 Baby Moves / Caveat

Lesson 2: Stylized Exchanges

Exercise 2-1 Pig Latin / Exercise 2-2 Speaking in (Foreign) Tongues / Exercise 2-3 Contemporary Greetings / Exercise 2-4 A Sampling of Elizabethan Greetings / Exercise 2-5 Ad Lib Elizabethan Greetings / Exercise 2-6 Ad Lib Elizabethan Insults / Exercise 2-7 Hamlet's Greeting to the Players

Lesson 3: Roses Are Red

Rhyme and Verse / Exercise 3-1 Roses Are Red / Exercise 3-2 Roses Are Redder - Take One / Eye Contact - And Looking Elsewhere / Exercise 3-3 Roses Are Redder - Take Two / Exercise 3-4 Roses Are Redder - Take Three / Thinking Your Character's Thoughts / Exercise 3-5 Roses Are Redder - Take Four / Playing the Play

Lesson 4: Playing God

Exercise 4-1 Playing God / Playing a Character

Lesson 5: Characterization

Exercise 5-1 Reciprocal Characterization: Gloucester and Hastings / Exercise 5-2 Intrinsic Characterization: Gloucester and Hastings / Intrinsic Characterizations: Extensions and Stereotypes / Centering / Exercise 5-3 Centering / Character Postures and Walks / Exercise 5-4 Character Walks / Character Voices / Exercise 5-5 Finding Your Voices / Character Descriptions / Exercise 5-6 Playing Out Character Descriptions / Animal Imagery / Exercise 5-7 Animate (Animalize) Your Character / Intrinsic and Reciprocal Characterization / Exercise 5-8 Character Greetings

Lesson 6: More God

Exercise 6-1 A Stanza, by God

Lesson 7: Playing the Devil

Exercise 7-1 Play the Devil

Lesson 8: Noah and His Wife: The Battle of the Sexes

Scene 8-1 Noah and His Wife

Lesson 9: Performance

Exercise 9-1 A Performative God / Performative Aspects of Dramatic Scenes / Exercise 9-2 Performing Your Greetings and Insults / The Audience in the Theatre / Scene 9-3 The Performative Context: Oedipus and Creon / Exercise 9-4 The Performative Context: Shakespeare / Exercise 9-5 the Performative Context: Chekhov

Part II. The Scenes

Lesson 10: Greek Tragedy

Scene 10-1 Oedipus and Teiresias / Scene 10-2 The Family Context: Oedipus and Jocasta / Play the Scene

Lesson 11: The Commedia

Commedia Styles and Scripts / Commedia Performances / Commedia and Renaissance Ideals / Niccolo Machiavelli / Exercise 11-1 Commedia Direct Address / Commedia Lazzi / Scene 11-1 Nicomaco and Sofronia / Stock Characters / Other Commedia Scenes

Lesson 12: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre

Scene 12-1 Richard and Ann / Verse / Scansion / Scene 12-2 Richard and Ann / Verse Variations / Playing the Verse / Rhetoric / Playing the Rhetoric / The Public Environment / Scene 12-3 Beatrice and Benedick / Shakespeare and Commedia / More Elizabethan Scenes

Lesson 13: The Theatre of Molière

Scene 13-1 The Bourgeois Gentleman / Costume ande Deportment / Play the Scene / Scene 13-2 The Misanthrope / Playing Translations

Lesson 14: Restoration Comedy

Exercise 14-1 Restoration Speeches / Scene 14-2 Restoration Scene

Lesson 15: The Belle Epoque

Exercise 15-1 George Bernard Shaw / Exercise 15-2 Anton Chekhov

Lesson 16: Contemporary Styles

Angels in America / Scene 16-1 Prior and Harper / The Piano Lesson / Scene 16-2 Boy Willie and Grace / Wit / Scene 16-3 Vivian and Jason

Lesson 17: L'Envoi

Product Description

Book by Cohen Robert

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0767425421
• ISBN 13: 9780767425421
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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