An Actor's Research: Investigating Choices for Practice and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781032123684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str.

Philippa Strandberg-Long

Opis

An Actor’s Research presents an accessible and highly practical guide to the research approaches required of the actor. It aims to establish the precision of the actor’s craft that is intrinsic to a compelling acting performance and explores a range of research activities surrounding and emerging from practical work in the studio.

Spis treści

1. The Actor's Research Mindset – Creative Critical Thinking  2. Self Evaluation as Research – Starting With the Self  3. Interrogating the Text – Close-Reading the Play  4. Investigating for Character – Shifting From Self  5. Character Into Relationship – Investigating Interaction  6. Character Into World – Exploring Given Circumstances  7. The World of the Production – Contexts of Creative Choices  8. Repurposing Actor's Research – Different Applications