Actor Training

Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised. In addition, eight more practitioners are included - and forty more photographs - to create a stunningly comprehensive study. The practitioners included are: Stella Adler; Eugenio Barba; Augusto Boal; Anne Bogart; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Brook; Michael Chekhov; Joseph Chaikin; Jacques Copeau; Philippe Gaulier; Jerzy Grotowski; Maria Knebel; Jacques Lecoq; Joan Littlewood; Sanford Meisner; Vsevolod Meyerhold; Ariane Mnouchkine; Monika Pagneux; Michel Saint-Denis; Wlodzimierz Staniewski; Konstantin Stanislavsky; Lee Strasberg The historical, cultural and political context of each practitioner's work is clearly set out by leading experts and accompanied by an incisive and enlightening analysis of the main principles of their training, practical exercises and key productions. This book is an invaluable introduction to the principles and practice of actor training and its role in shaping modern theatre.

ISBN 0415471680   Pages 368 ISBN13 9780415471688 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 720 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Previous ISBN 9780415194525 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 25 Jan 2010   Width (mm) 174 DEWEY 792.02807   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate

		List of illustrations
1		Stanislavsky's System: Pathways for the Actor by Sharon Marie Carnicke		1
2		Meyerhold and Biomechanics by Robert Leach		26
3		Jacques Copeau: The Quest for Sincerity by John Rudlin		43
4		Michael Chekhov on the Technique of Acting: 'Was Don Quixote True to Life?' by Franc Chamberlain		63
5		Michel Saint-Denis: Training the Complete Actor by Jane Baldwin		81
6		The Knebel Technique: Active Analysis in Practice by Sharon Marie Carnicke		99
7		Brecht and Actor Training: On Whose Behalf Do We Act? by Peter Thomson		117
8		Joan Littlewood by Clive Barker		130
9		Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: Method Acting by David Krasner		144
10		Joseph Chaikin and Aspects of Actor Training: Possibilities Rendered Present by Dorinda Hulton		164
11		Peter Brook: Transparency and the Invisible Network by Lorna Marshall and David Williams		184
12		Grotowski's Vision of the Actor: The Search for Contact by Lisa Wolford		199
13		Jacques Lecoq, Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier: Training for Play, Lightness and Disobedience by Simon Murray		215
14		Training With Eugenio Barba: Acting Principles, the Pre-Expressive and 'Personal Temperature' by Ian Watson		237
15		Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre Du Soleil: Theatricalising History; the Theatre as Metaphor; The Actor as Signifier by Helen E. Richardson		250
16		Wlodzimierz Staniewski: Gardzienice and the Naturalised Actor by Alison Hodge		268
17		Anne Bogart and Siti Company: Creating the Moment by Royd Climenhaga		288
18		Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed by Frances Babbage		305
		Index		325

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