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Book Synopsis Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed by : Bill Kincaid
Download or read book Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed written by Bill Kincaid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare’s plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice. Each chapter is devoted to a specific guideline, demonstrating through examples how it can be applied to pieces of text from Shakespeare’s First Folio, how it creates blocking and stage business, and how it enhances story clarity. Once the guidelines have been established, practical means of production are discussed, providing the reader with sufficient step-by-step instruction to prepare for Unrehearsed performances. This book is written for the actor and performer.
Book Synopsis Secrets of Acting Shakespeare by : Patrick Tucker
Download or read book Secrets of Acting Shakespeare written by Patrick Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.
Book Synopsis Performing Shakespeare: A Way to Learn by : Robert Sugarman
Download or read book Performing Shakespeare: A Way to Learn written by Robert Sugarman and published by Mountainside Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful second grade, fifth grade and high school programs are analyzed to help teachers, directors and leaders of social programs enrich their work by performing Shakespeare with young people.
Book Synopsis Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio by : Don Weingust
Download or read book Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio written by Don Weingust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: æOriginalÆ Shakespearean theatrical architecture, texts and performance methodologies have become subjects of great popular, professional and academic theatrical interest. Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text & Performance examines a.
Book Synopsis Mastering Shakespeare by : Scott Kaiser
Download or read book Mastering Shakespeare written by Scott Kaiser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says only the British can act Shakespeare? In this unique guide, a veteran acting coach shatters that myth with a boldly American approach to the Bard. Written in the form of a play, this volume's "characters" include a master teacher and 16 students grappling with the challenges of acting Shakespeare. Using actual speeches from 32 of Shakespeare's plays, each of the book's six "scenes" offer proven solutions to such acting problems as delivering spoken subtext, using physical actions to orchestrate a speech, creating images within a speech, dividing a speech into measures, and much more.
Book Synopsis Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous! by : Herb Parker
Download or read book Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous! written by Herb Parker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhymed Verse and Couplets: A Poet and Do Know It -- Sonnets -- Exercise 21: Write a Sonnet -- Prose: How We Talk -- Dag-nabbit! Shakespeare's Made-up Words -- Summary -- Act Four: Divers Schedules: A Few Items Picked Up Watching Actors Do Shakespeare -- Item 1: There is No Subtext in Shakespeare -- Item 2: There is Never a "Fourth Wall" -- Item 3: Size is About More than Being Big and Loud -- Item 4: Play What the Scene is Doing-Not Just What the Words Mean -- Item 5: Antithesis is Fighting for an Answer by Comparing Opposites -- Exercise 22: Play the Antithesis -- Item 6: Don't Report, Make a Discovery! -- Item 7: Leave Your Hands Alone -- Item 8: Speak a Soliloquy as if Your Life Depended upon It-Because It Does -- Item 9: Pretty Speeches are About Blood and Guts -- Item 10: Paint the Picture! -- Exercise 23: A Pig in Slop-with the Words -- Item 11: Shakespeare is Too Big for Film -- Item 12: All Shakespearean Characters are Philosophers and Poets -- Postscript -- Glossary: A Listing of Common Shakespearean Terminology -- Appendix: Practice Speeches for Men and Women -- Recommended Reading -- Index.
Book Synopsis Secrets of Acting Shakespeare by : Patrick Tucker
Download or read book Secrets of Acting Shakespeare written by Patrick Tucker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn’t a book that gently instructs. It is a passionate, yes-you-can guide designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. Patrick Tucker’s classic manual encourages trained and amateur actors alike to look to the original practices of the Elizabethan theatre for inspiration. He explores the ‘cue scripts’ used by actors, who knew only their own lines, to demonstrate the extraordinary way that these plays work by ear. This updated second edition includes: A section dedicated to the modes of address 'thee‘ and 'you‘ A brand new chapter on Original Practices and cue scripts An expanded genealogical chart, showing the interrelations of 92 different characters from the history plays A new discussion of Elizabethan acting spaces – balconies, gates, ramparts and even backstage areas Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a must-read for actors intrigued by the ‘Original Approach’ to acting Shakespeare, or for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.
Book Synopsis Cracking Shakespeare by : Kelly Hunter
Download or read book Cracking Shakespeare written by Kelly Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare's language, offering hands-on techniques for drama students, young actors and directors who are intimidated by rehearsing, performing and directing Shakespeare's plays. For some artists approaching Shakespeare, the ability to capture the dynamic movement of thought from mind to mouth, and the paradox of using the formality of verse to express a realistic form of speech, can seem daunting. Cracking Shakespeare includes practical techniques and exercises to solve this dilemma – including supporting online video which demonstrate how to embody Shakespeare's characters in rehearsal and performance – offering a toolkit that will free actors and directors from their fear of Shakespeare. The result of thirty years of acting, teaching and directing Shakespeare, Kelly Hunter's Cracking Shakespeare is the ideal textbook for actors and directors looking for new ways to approach Shakespeare's plays in a hands-on, down-to-earth style.
Book Synopsis Merely Players? by : Jonathan Holmes
Download or read book Merely Players? written by Jonathan Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare, Memory and Performance by : Peter Holland
Download or read book Shakespeare, Memory and Performance written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by leading Shakespeare scholars, first published in 2006, brings together memory and performance.
Download or read book Will Power written by John Basil and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide for actors which outlines a three-week process for performing Shakespeare's plays.
Book Synopsis Performing Shakespeare by : John Hester
Download or read book Performing Shakespeare written by John Hester and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Shakespeare demystifies the works of the most famous dramatist in the English language. All too often the works of William Shakespeare are treated with a reverence and awe bordering on fear; this book aims to take that fear away, leaving the performer to enjoy the luxury of richness of the images, the poetry of the language, the humour and the drama, as well as providing the audience with a compelling and moving theatrical experience. Topics covered:· Understanding the language· A summary of Shakespeare's life and work· Practical exercises· Warming up· Calming the nerves· Working as a team AUTHOR: John Hester trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and has been a working theatre professional and Equity member for twenty-five years. He is an actor, director, tutor, producer and playwright, and has experience in theatre and television. 90 colour photos
Book Synopsis Mozart's Music of Friends by : Edward Klorman
Download or read book Mozart's Music of Friends written by Edward Klorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.
Book Synopsis Acting Shakespeare by : Bertram Leon Joseph
Download or read book Acting Shakespeare written by Bertram Leon Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words? Can modern directors, actors, and even library readers of Shakespeare learn from them? Creating character and making the Elizabethan playwright’s poetry compelling for the audience is a problem which has seldom been resolved in modern times. This book demonstrates the hard course a modern actor must follow to make real and truthful the words he speaks, and the action and emotion underlying them. With examples and simple exercises, this book helps with the preparation for the great task – providing the actor with a combination that unlocks the Bard's English. Starting with how theatrical speech was understood in Renaissance England, it looks at figures of speech, the powers of persuasion, and the passion and rhythm inherent in the language.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance by : James C. Bulman
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance written by James C. Bulman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours of the discipline. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from around the world, reveal how these critical cross-currents are influencing the ways we now view Shakespeare in performance. The volume is organised in four Parts. Part I interrogates how Shakespeare continues to achieve contemporaneity for Western audiences by exploring modes of performance, acting styles, and aesthetic choices regarded as experimental. Part II tackles the burgeoning field of reception: how and why audiences respond to performances as they do, or actors to the conditions in which they perform; how immersive productions turn spectators into actors; how memory and cognition shape and reshape the performances we think we saw. Part III addresses the ways in which revolutions in technology have altered our views of Shakespeare, both through the mediums of film and sound recording, and through digitalizing processes that have generated a profound reconsideration of what performance is and how it is accessed. The final Part grapples with intercultural Shakespeare, considering not only matters of cultural hegemony and appropriation in a 'global' importation of non-Western productions to Europe and North America, but also how Shakespeare has been made 'local' in performances staged or filmed in African, Asian, and Latin American countries. Together, these ground-breaking essays attest to the richness and diversity of Shakespearean performance criticism as it is practiced today, and they point the way to critical continents not yet explored.
Book Synopsis Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas by : Ellen Rosand
Download or read book Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas written by Ellen Rosand and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi’s late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective. The premise of the volume is the idea that constructive dialogue between musicologists and musicians, stage directors and theater historians, as well as philologists and literary critics can shed new light on Monteverdi’s two Venetian operas (and their respective librettos, by Badoaro and Busenello), not only at the levels of textual criticism, historical exegesis, and dramaturgy, but also with regard to concrete choices of performance, staging, and mise-en-scène. Following an Introduction setting up the interdisciplinary agenda, the volume comprises two main parts: ‘Contexts and Sources’ deals with the historical, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts of the works - librettos and scores; 'Performance and Interpretation’ offers critical and historical insights regarding the casting, singing, reciting, staging, and conducting of the two operas. This volume will appeal to scholars and researchers in Opera Studies and Music History as well as be of interest to early music performers and all those involved with presenting opera on stage.
Book Synopsis Performing Shakespeare's Women by : Paige Martin Reynolds
Download or read book Performing Shakespeare's Women written by Paige Martin Reynolds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today, dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to 'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today.
