Louis Fantasia

Instant Shakespeare

A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors, and Teachers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book demystifies the Bard and allows for performance of his plays in clear, fresh, and unpretentious ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781566634328
• ISBN-10: 1566634326
• Artikelnr.: 21046056

Autorenporträt

By Louis Fantasia

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Prelude: Banging at Swords 3 Part 2 Introduction: The Absence of
Presence 11 Part 3 PART ONE: PRE-PERFORMANCE- INSTANT SHAKESPEARE! Chapter
4 Know What the Words Really Mean- Dialogue 19 Chapter 5 The Histrionic
Sensibility 39 Chapter 6 Whose Frog is it Anyway? 44 Chapter 7 Excercise
Monologues 47 Chapter 9 Know the Rhythm and Sense of the Line- Character 63
Chapter 10 Know What the Play is About- The Central Event 78 Part 11
Interlude: More Banging at Swords: Encounters at Shakespeare's Globe,
1981-1997 95 Part 12 PART TWO: ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE Chapter 13
Transitions from reading to Performance 107 Chapter 14 Scenes for
Excercises 113 Chapter 15 Aspects of Performance: Breath and Impulse 120
Chapter 16 Aspects of Performance: A Practical Study of the Breath 128
Chapter 17 Isabella's Voice 142 Chapter 18 The Ephemeral Nature of the
Theatrical Event 154 Chapter 19 A Philosophy of Training and Performance
161 Chapter 20 Presence and the Ontological Sensibility 172 Part 21
Epilogue: Still Banging at Swords- Optional Authenticity and Shakespeare's
Globe, 1997-2001 187 Part 22 Acknowledgments 197 Part 23 A Note on Sources
199 Part 24 Index 203