The Amateur Actor's Manual
Author : Josephine Turner Allin
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN :
Author : Josephine Turner Allin
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Amateur plays
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Author : Lewis Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136784500
Most actors and directors have struggled with the problem of needing to imitate foreign dialects. Marguerite and Lewis Herman have created an essential tool for actors, directors and writers aiming toward the most authentic performances possible. Foreign Dialects contains an extensive repertoire of dialects that will assist the actor in the preparation for the most difficult foreign roles. Now in paperback, this classic text offers the director or producer a quick, convenient aid for correcting actors and evaluating applicants for authenticity and dialect ability. In addition, it guides those writing fiction as well as radio, movie, and television scripts. Thirty foreign dialects are provided, with character studies, speech peculiarities, and examples of the dialects in easy-to-read phonetic monologues--including Cockney, British, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Greek and Yiddish.
Author : Barbara Houseman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780878301676
Finding your voice can be used as a resource by actors at all levels, form students and young professionals to established and experienced actors. Drama teachers in schools and committed amateur actors who want to increase their vocal skills and understanding will also find it invaluable.
Author : Henry DALTON (pseud.)
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1861
Category :
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Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1408185954
We train because we are human and we become human because we train. This is the surprising and original conclusion of Anatomy of Performance Training, in which John Matthews shows how training is a very human response to the problems of having a body and living in the world. Using illustrative case-studies of professional practice, each chapter addresses a specific body part, offering a self-contained discussion of its symbolic and practical significance in the artistic, and commercial, activities of training. These anatomical case-studies are cross-referenced with other disciplines (such as sport, high diving, deep diving and artisan craft) to further expand our understanding of performance. Stand-alone chapters, ideal for reference, build towards an overall conclusion that the uniquely human practice of training is emerging as a new and pervasive ideology globally. Ideal for readers seeking to understand the relationship the body has with the theatre and training, or for teachers looking for a new, innovative approach to performance, Anatomy of Performance Training is an accessible, original contribution to the philosophy of training for performance.
Author : Thomas Hailes Lacy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382159597
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Mary Ann Smart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520939875
When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "the most enthusiastic mimomaniac" ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements. Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche may have seen and heard more than he realized. In Mimomania she takes his accusation as an invitation to listen to Wagner's music—and that of several of his near-contemporaries—for the way it serves to intensify the visible and the enacted. As Smart demonstrates, this productive fusion of music and movement often arises when music forsakes the autonomy so prized by the Romantics to function mimetically, underlining the sighs of a Bellini heroine, for instance, or the authoritarian footsteps of a Verdi baritone. Mimomania tracks such effects through readings of operas by Auber, Bellini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, and Wagner. Listening for gestural music, we find resemblance in unexpected places: between the overwrought scenes of supplication in French melodrama of the 1820s and a cluster of late Verdi arias that end with the soprano falling to her knees, or between the mute heroine of Auber’s La Muette de Portici and the solemn, almost theological pantomimic tableaux Wagner builds around characters such as Sieglinde or Kundry. Mimomania shows how attention to gesture suggests a new approach to the representation of gender in this repertoire, replacing aural analogies for voyeurism and objectification with a more specifically musical sense of how music can surround, propel, and animate the body on stage.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Best books
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Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN :
Author : Leman Thomas Rede
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1808
Category : Acting
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