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Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique
Sinéad Rushe
其他書名
A Practitioner’s Guide
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2019-01-24
主題
Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning
ISBN
1472503465
9781472503466
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SJODDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinéad Rushe's book provides a complete overview of the whole method, and includes illuminating explanations of its principles, as well as a wide range of practical exercises that illustrate, step by step, how they can be applied to dramatic texts.
Part One
provides an outline of the ideas that underpin the work, which help to prepare practitioners to become responsive and receptive, and to awaken their imagination.
Part Two
charts a journey through the foundational psychophysical exercises that can both orient an actor's training routine and be applied directly to the development of a role.
Part Three
focuses on more specific and elaborate methods of scene work, characterisation and the art of transformation.
Drawing on the full range of Chekhov's writing in English and French, this book also examines unpublished material from the Dartington Hall archives and features interviews with actors who have worked with the technique, including Simon Callow and Joanna Merlin. It illustrates Chekhov's approach by referring to Rushe's own productions of Nikolai Gogol's short story
Diary of a Madman
and Shakespeare's
Othello
, as well as characters and scenes in Sarah Kane's
Blasted
and the contemporary American television series
Breaking Bad
.
Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique
is an accessible, comprehensive and contemporary point of reference for those already trained in the method, as well as an initiation and toolkit for practitioners who are just beginning to discover it.