Shakespeare & Company: When Action Is Eloquence

ISBN-13: 9780367262556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 322 str.

Bella Merlin; Tina Packer

Opis

Shakespeare & Company is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare’s language at its heart.

Spis treści

List of figures  Forweord - Allyn Burrows  Preface  Aknowledgements  Abbreviations  Prologue  ACT I: HISTORY AND ROOTS  1. Visions and Revisions: The Company is Formed  2. Bricks and Mortar, Trellis and Trees: An Aesthetic is Realized  3. Talk #1: Function of the Theatre  ACT II: TRAINING  4. Evolution and Influences of the Month-Long Intensive  5. Talk #2: Actor/Audience Relationship  6. Voice Work & Basics  7. Text Work & Dropping In  8. Body Work & Bringing It All Together  ACT III: EDUCATION  9. Practical Pedagogy  10. Shakespeare in the Schools  11. Shakespeare on the Campus  12. Shakespeare in the Courts  ACT IV: PERFORMANCE  13. The Art Form of Performance  14. Talk #3: Theatre, Therapy and Theology  15. Cymbeline: A Performance Case Study  Epilogue: 'On such a full sea are we now afloat'  Appendix 1: An Abridged Performance History  Appendix 2: An Abridged Dramatis Personae  Appendix 3: A Potted Plot of Cymbeline  Index