Stagecraft : Stanislavsky and external acting techniques

Stagecraft : Stanislavsky and external acting techniques /

How do you go about creating a character fully and in compelling detail? How do you rehearse? Exactly what goes on during a performance? Everything you need to know as an actor about the process of bringing a play to life in today's theatre can be found in Stagecraft: Stanislavsky and External...

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Main Author: Blumenfeld, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee, WI : Limelight Editions, [2011]
Subjects:
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, > 1863-1938.
Method acting.
Acting.
Item Description:A companion to: Using the Stanislavsky system.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Stagecraft: Internal and External Acting Technique
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. Stagecraft and Stage Technique
  • Introduction: On Acting and Actor Training
  • Chapter 1. Voice and Speech; Acting with an Accent
  • Chapter 2. Reading the Script and Finding the Subtext; Technical Aspects of Language; Speaking Shakespearean Prose and Verse
  • Chapter 3. Movement and Gesture; Posture; Positioning
  • Chapter 4. Rehearsal and Performance Techniques
  • Chapter 5. Performing Comedy
  • Chapter 6. Acting in Musical Theater and Opera
  • Chapter 7. Finishing Touches: Outward Appearances, Costume, and Makeup
  • Part 2. Period Styles: The Theater as a Reflection of History, or Every Play in its Time
  • Introduction: Stanislavsky's Approach to Period Styles
  • Chapter 8. Ancient Greece and Rome
  • Chapter 9. The Medieval Period
  • Chapter 10. The Renaissance: Elizabethan England Willaim Shakespeare
  • Chapter 11. The Seventeenth Century in France and England: Molière William Congreve
  • Chapter 12. The Eighteenth Century: The French Revolution; the Napoleonic Era; the Dawn of the Romantic Age
  • Chapter 13. The Later Nineteenth Century: Victorian England and Beyond
  • Chapter 14. The Turn of the Twentieth Century; World War One; the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression; World War Two
  • Part 3. Some Post-Stanislavskian Approaches to Theater, Character Creation, and the Art of Acting
  • Introduction: Dissent and Variations
  • Chapter 15. The Russians: Vsevelod Meyerhold Yevgenyi Vakhtangov
  • Chapter 16. The Russian Émigrés Maria Ouspenskaya Richard Boleslavsky Michael Chekhov
  • Chapter 17. The Americans Stella Adler Lee Strasberg Sanford Meisner Morris Carnovsky Uta Hagen
  • Chapter 18. The Influence of Berthold Brecht Joseph Chaikin Jerzy Grotowski
  • Chapter 19. Some Notes on Contemporary Developments: Augusto Boal; Anne Bogart's Viewpoints and Tadashi Suzuki's Approach
  • An Annotated Glossary of Acting Terms
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index of People

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