Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367547264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 212 str.

Lee Michael Cohn

Opis

Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique to the craft of directing.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments  Author's Note  Part 1: Preparation  1. Introduction  2. The Director and the Text  3. Actions  4. Practical Aesthetics Script Analysis  5. Through-Line Analysis  6. The Director’s Notebook  Part 2: The Rehearsal Process  7. Early Rehearsals  8. Blocking the Scene  9. Adjustments and Run Throughs  10. Comedy: The Serious Business of Humor  11. Conclusion  Suggested Reading and Viewing  Index

O autorze

Lee Michael Cohn, MFA, is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning educator, writer, director, and filmmaker. He directed Inside Private Lives (IPL), the hit show that was an LA Weekly Pick of the Week, recommended twice by the LA Times, and received a rave review in The New York Times. IPL also placed in the Top ten out of over 2,000 shows at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. Lee is the co-author of A Practical Handbook for the Actor, a best-selling acting textbook (over 330,000 copies sold) that is required reading in hundreds of theatre programs all over the world.