Style for Actors: A Handbook for Moving Beyond Realism

ISBN-13: 9780367186104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str.

Robert Barton

Opis

Style for Actors is an award-winning handbook and the definitive guide to roles in historical drama. Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make this third edition their constant companion.  

Recenzje

"Excellent scholarship presents and wealth of information for actors interested in how to approach plays of different periods and styles." - Dawn Arnold, Northern Illinois University, USA

Spis treści

Part 1: Finding Style  1. Recognizing Style: The eyes of the beholder  2. Analyzing Style: Survival questions  3. Mastering Style: The classical actor  Part 2: Achieving Style  4. Greek Period Sytle: Three generations of tragic vision  5. Elizabethan Period Style: Theatre of earth and stars  6. Restoration Period Style: Decadence as one of the fine arts  7. Relatives of Restoration Period Style: Morals, manner and madness  Part 3: Exploring Style  8. Fusion Style: Imagination and innovation  9. Global Style: Worldwide influence and invention  10. Personal Style: Creating reality  Appendices

O autorze

Robert Barton is the author of Acting: Onstage and Off and Acting Reframes, co-author of Voice: Onstage and Off, Movement: Onstage and Off, Theatre in Your Life and Life Themes, and editor and adaptor of The Craft of Comedy. His seminal essay "Creative Acting" appears in Creativity in Theatre. His works aim to help readers move beyond acting in theatre to use it to more effectively act their own lives.