Robert Cohen
Acting One/Acting Two
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The new, fifth edition of Robert Cohen's Acting One, the text used to teach acting on more campuses than any other, has now been combined for the first time with his Acting Two, (the second edition of his previously-titled Advanced Acting). Together, Acting One/Acting Two provides a comprehensive and fully integrated system of all acting, from the most realistic to the most stylized. Part One (Acting One) covers basic skills such as talking, listening, tactical interplay, physicalizing, building scenes, and making powerful acting choices. Part Two (Acting Two) provides a series of exercises…mehr
The new, fifth edition of Robert Cohen's Acting One, the text used to teach acting on more campuses than any other, has now been combined for the first time with his Acting Two, (the second edition of his previously-titled Advanced Acting). Together, Acting One/Acting Two provides a comprehensive and fully integrated system of all acting, from the most realistic to the most stylized. Part One (Acting One) covers basic skills such as talking, listening, tactical interplay, physicalizing, building scenes, and making powerful acting choices. Part Two (Acting Two) provides a series of exercises that encourage the student actor's self-extension into radically different styles (historical, literary, fantastical) and characterizations; then coaches the student through scenework in a variety of historical periods (Greek, Commedia, Elizabethan, Molière, Restoration, Belle Epoque), as well as modern hyper-realistic theatrical forms such as the theatres of alienation and the absurd, and exemplary recent dramas by Tony Kushner, Margaret Edson, August Wilson and Doug Wright.
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- Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
- 5th edition
- Seitenzahl: 552
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 232mm x 169mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 848g
- ISBN-13: 9780073288543
- ISBN-10: 0073288543
- Artikelnr.: 22845878
- Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
- 5th edition
- Seitenzahl: 552
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 232mm x 169mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 848g
- ISBN-13: 9780073288543
- ISBN-10: 0073288543
- Artikelnr.: 22845878
ROBERT COHEN was the founding chair Drama at the University of California at Irvine, where he continues to serve as the department's Claire Trevor Professor of Drama. He has also been a resident acting teacher at the Actors Center in New York, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the Korean National Arts University, and the national theatre academies of Hungary, Finland, and Estonia. He is an accomplished stage director, scholar, playwright, drama critic, and teacher. A director by training (Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale Drama School), Cohen has staged thirteen professional productions at the Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, plus well over a hundred productions at Stages Theatre Center (Hollywood), Virginia Museum Theatre (Richmond), Theatre 40 (Beverly Hills), Image Theatre (Boston), Summer Repertory Theatre (Santa Rosa), the Medieval Drama Project (Irvine), the Manhattan Theatre Source, various universities, and several operas, videos and films. In addition to Theatre and Theatre: Brief Edition, he is also the author of many theatre books, including Acting One, Advanced Acting, Acting in Shakespeare, Acting Professionally, Acting Power, More Power to You, Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny, Creative Play Direction, and two dramatic anthologies. His essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Forum, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, Theater der Zeit, Essays in Theatre, On Stage Studies, The Drama Review, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Slavic and East European Performance, Experiment and Innovation, and Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Cohen's play, The Prince, published by Dramatic Publishing Company, has been professionally produced in Long Beach, Pittsburgh, Budapest, and in staged readings in New York and Los Angeles; his dramatic translations (The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Misanthrope, Clizia, Tibi's Law) and opera translations (The Magic Flute, Carmen) have been both produced and published widely. For the past twenty years, Cohen has been the Southern California drama critic for Plays International, reviewing over two hundred plays. In 1999, he received the national Career Achievement award from ATHE - the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Preface ACTING ONE Introduction PART I. PREPARATION FOR ACTING Lesson 1: Preparing to Act Relaxation
Exercise 1-1 Relaxation
Trust
Exercise 1-2 Spine Lengthening
Exuberance
Exercise 1-3 BAM-POW, Dance, Sing
Discipline
Criticism
A Playful Attitude
Freedom
Preparation Lesson 2: What Is Acting? Exercise 2-1 Pledge Your Allegiance to a Flag PART II. THE ACTOR'S APPROACH Lesson 3: Goal and Obstacle Fundamental Principle
Exercise 3-1 Reaching
Exercise 3-2 Reaching for Goals
Exercise 3-3 Overcoming an Obstacle
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 3-4 Doing vs. Being
Projection
Exercise 3-5 Resonating
Exercise 3-6 Resonating (A Continuation)
Exercise 3-7 Goals Lesson 4: Acting with the 'Other' The Other
Exercise 4-1 Making Your Partner Smile
Interactive Dynamics
Exercise 4-2 Vulnerability
Exercise 4-3 Discovery
The Character
Tactics
Exercise 4-4 Using Tactics
Exercise 4-5 One Two Three Four Five Six Seven
Monologues
Exercise 4-6 Inventing the Other Lesson 5: Beginning to Act Contentless Scene
Exercise 5-1 Contentless Scene I
Intensifiers
Exercise 5-2 Intensifying
Physicalizers
Exercise 5-3 Varying Locale or Action
Exercise 5-4 Contentless Scene II Lesson 6: Tactics Punishment and Reward
Playing Tactics
Exercise 6-1 Frighten Your Partner
Exercise 6-2 Building Intensity
Exercise 6-3 Try to Make Your Partner Cry
Exercise 6-4 Movement and Contact
Exercise 6-5 Encourage Your Partner
Alternating Tactics
Exercise 6-6 Mixing Tactics
The Middle Ranges
Exercise 6-7 Eliminating the Extremes Lesson 7: Expectations Expecting Victory
Exercise 7-1 Playing Bored
Positive Goals
Exercise 7-2 Enthusiasm
Exercise 7-3 Try the Impossible
Eye Contact
Exercise 7-4 Tactics and Expectations Lesson 8: GOTE A Basic Method
"Get Your Character's GOTE"
Exercise 8-1 The GOTEsheet PART III. THE ACTOR'S TASK Lesson 9: Preparing a Role Finding Your Role
Finding Your "Character"
Editing a Scene
Memorization Methods
Cues
Studying the Part
Exercise 9-1 The Gentleman Caller I Lesson 10: Rehearsing Rehearsals
Undirected Rehearsals
Rehearsal Alternatives
Exercise 10-1 The Gentleman Caller II Lesson 11: Staging the Scene Stage Directions
Creating the Locale
Movement and Stage Business
Interesting Positions
Reaching the Audience
Exercise 11-1 Setting the Stage Lesson 12: Choices The Need for Choices
Good Choices
Exercise 12-1 Bold Choices Lesson 13: Performing Stage Fright
Classroom Performance
Play for Results--In the Other Character! Lesson 14: Evaluation and Improvement Helpful Criticism
Reworking
Exercise 14-1 Scene Presentation PART IV. THE ACTOR'S INSTRUMENT Lesson 15: The Actor's Voice Breathing
Exercise 15-1 Breathing from the Abdomen
Phonation: Making Sounds
Exercise 15-2 Sounding
Resonance
Exercise 15-3 Exploring Resonance
Pitch
Exercise 15-4 Exploring Your Pitch Range
A Stageworthy Voice
Exercise 15-5 Speaking with Resonance Lesson 16: Stage Speech Good Diction
Speech Sounds
Exercise 16-1 Vowels
Exercise 16-2 Repeating Syllables
Exercise 16-3 Consonants
Exercise 16-4 Speeches Lesson 17: Using Your Voice Liberation
Exercise 17-1 Rude Chants
Exercise 17-2 Rude Cheering
Exercise 17-3 Fancy Talk
Exercise 17-4 Address a Group
Purposefulness
Exercise 17-5 Adding Purpose Lesson 18: The Actor's Body Agility
Exercise 18-1 Fast Warm-Up
Alignment
Exercise 18-2 Improving Alignment
Walking
Exercise 18-3 Sixteen Walks
Exercise 18-4 Walk and Talk
Sitting and Standing
Exercise 18-5 Walk, Talk, Sit
Velocity: Accelerating, Decelerating, and Constant
Exercise 18-6 Acceleration
Deceleration
Counterpoise
Exercise 18-7 Contraposto
Exercise 18-8 Contraction
Extension
The Dynamics of Effort
Exercise 18-9 Distinct Movements
Exercise 18-10 To Be or Not to Be
Exercise 18-11 Walking and Kicking Lesson 19: Voice and Body Integration Coordination
Exercise 19-1 Commands
Exercise 19-2 Speeches with Business
Exercise 19-3 Physical Punctuation
Exercise 19-4 Physical Rhythms
Exercise 19-5 Verbal Rhythms
Pointing
Exercise 19-6 Pointing
Tempo
Exercise 19-7 Speech
Movement Timing
Actors with Disabilities Lesson 20: Imagination and Creativity Imagination
Creativity
Creativity and Imagination
Using Your Fantasies
Exercise 20-1 Cold
Hot
Exercise 20-2 Age Regression
Advancement
Exercise 20-3 Facing an Imagined Death
Exercise 20-4 Facing Love
Lesson 21: Emotion and Acting Theory Exercise 21-1 Playing (with) Real Emotion I
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 21-2 Playing (with) Real Emotion II
Conclusion PART V. THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE Lesson 22: Phrasing Diction
Open-Mouthed Speaking
Exercise 22-1 A Acting with Your Teeth
Exercise 22-1 B
Exercise 22-1 C
Developing Diction
Exercise 22-2 Repeated Sentences
Exercise 22-3 Shaw Speech
Emphasis
Exercise 22-4 Change of Emphasis
Exercise 22-5 Punctuate with Emphasis
Inflection
Exercise 22-6 Inflections
Phrasing Lesson 23: Attack The First Word
Physical Attack
Turn-Taking
Exercise 23-1 Turn-Taking Dialog
Preparing Strong Attacks
Exercise 23-2 Action Cues Lesson 24: Follow-Through The Hook
Questions as Questions
Statements as Questions
Exercise 24-1 Making Questions
Statements as Statements
Exercise 24-2 Argument-Enders
Trail-offs Lesson 25: Line Linkage Analyzing Dialog
Rising End-Inflections
Falling End-Inflections
Attack Inflections
Pauses
Long Speeches
Exercise 25-1 Line Linking
Exercise 25-2 The Long Speech
Line Linking in Practice Lesson 26: Scene Structure Breaking Down a Script
Choosing a Scene to Do in Class
Structural Characteristics
Transitions
Scene Breakdown
Exercise 26-1 Scene Structure in Action Lesson 27: Building a Scene Building and Topping
Exercise 27-1 Standard Build I
Exercise 27-2 Standard Build II
Exercise 27-3 Standard Build III
Cutting Back
Getting on Top
Pacing a Build
Complex Builds
Exercise 27-4 I Detest Monday
Exercise 27-5 I Detest January
Exercise 27-6 Come Here
Exercise 27-7 Building Molière Lesson 28: Creating a Monologue Going It Alone
The Monologue to Someone Else
The Soliloquy
Playing a Monologue or Soliloquy
Exercise 28-1 Prepare a Monologue
L'Envoi ACTING TWO Introduction Terminology: Style, Character, and performance
Acting Two's Structure
A Word About Gender
Part I. Extensions of Yourself Lesson 1: Style Exercise 1-1 Baby Talk
Exercise 1-2 Baby Moves
Lesson 2: Stylized Exchanges Exercise 2-1 Pig Latin
Exercise 2-2 Speaking in (Foreign) Tongues
Exercise 2-3 Contemporary Greetings
Exercise 2-4 Making Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-5 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-6 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Insults
Exercise 2-7 Hamlet's Greeting to the Players Lesson 3: Roses Are Red Rhyme and Verse
Exercise 3-1 Roses Are Red
Exercise 3-2 Roses Are Redder--Take One
Eye Contact--And Looking Elsewhere
Exercise 3-3 Roses Are Redder--Take Two
Exercise 3-4 Roses Are Redder--Take Three
Thinking Your Character's Thoughts
Exercise 3-5 Roses Are Redder--Take Four
Playing the Play Lesson 4: Playing God Exercise 4-1 Playing God
Playing a Character Lesson 5: Characterization Exercise 5-1 Reciprocal Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Exercise 5-2 Intrinsic Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Intrinsic Characterizations: Extensions and Stereotypes
Centering
Exercise 5-3 Centering
Character Postures and Walks
Exercise 5-4 Character Walks
Character Voices
Exercise 5-5 Finding Your Voices
Character Descriptions
Exercise 5-6 Playing Out Character Descriptions
Animal Imagery
Exercise 5-7 Animate (Animalize) Your Character
Intrinsic and Reciprocal Characterization
Exercise 5-8 Character Greetings Lesson 6: More God Exercise 6-1 A Stanza, by God Lesson 7: The Battle of the Sexes: Noah and His Wife Scene 7-1 Noah and His Wife Lesson 8: Performance: Being Public in Private Exercise 8-1 A Performative God
Performative Aspects of Dramatic Scenes
Exercise 8-2 Performing Your Greetings and Insults
The Audience in the Theatre
Scene 8-3 The Performative Context: Oedipus and Creon
Exercise 8-4 The Performative Context: Shakespeare
Exercise 8-5 the Performative Context: Chekhov Part II. The Scenes Lesson 9: Greek Tragedy Scene 9-1 Politician vs. Prophet: Oedipus and Teiresias
More Greek Scenes
Lesson 10: The Commedia Commedia Styles and Scripts
Commedia Performances
Commedia and Renaissance Ideals
Acting Commedia: Machiavelli's Clizia
Exercise 10-1 Commedia: Direct Address
Commedia Lazzi
Scene 10-1 Nicomaco and Sofronia
Stock Characters
More Commedia Scenes Lesson 11: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre Scene 11-1 The Past Made Vivid: Richard and Ann
Scansion
Verse Variations
Playing the Verse
Rhetoric
Playing and Building the Rhetoric
The Public Environment
Scene 11-2 A Merry War: Beatrice and Benedick
Shakespeare and Commedia
More Elizabethan Scenes Lesson 12: The Theatre of Molière Scene 12-1 Physical Comedy
Jourdain and the Philosopher
Molière and Commedia
Costume and Deportment
French Verse
Scene 12-2 Quarreling in Couplets: Alceste and Celimène
Lesson 13: Restoration Comedy Exercise 13-1 Restoration Speeches
Scene 13-1 Sexual Banter
Lesson 14: The Belle Epoque George Bernard Shaw
Exercise 14-1 Shaw's Political Speeches
Anton Chekhov
Scene 14-1 Chekhov's Symphony of Feeling Oscar Wilde
Scene 14-2 Wilde's Comedy of (Male) Manners
Exercise 14-3 Wilde's Comedy of (Female) Manners Lesson 15: The Hyperthe atre Eugene Ionesco: Theater of the Absurd
Exercise 15-1 Theatre of Absurd: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bertolt Brecht: Theater of Distancing
Scene 15-2 Distancing in Szechuan
Verfremdung in Everyday Life Lesson 16: Contemporary Styles Clashing Cultures
16-1 Prior and Harper
Clashing Subcultures
16-2 Boy Willie and Grace
Clashing Professions
16-3 Vivian and Jason
Solo performer, Multiple Roles L'Envoi A Glossary of Acting Terms Index
Exercise 1-1 Relaxation
Trust
Exercise 1-2 Spine Lengthening
Exuberance
Exercise 1-3 BAM-POW, Dance, Sing
Discipline
Criticism
A Playful Attitude
Freedom
Preparation Lesson 2: What Is Acting? Exercise 2-1 Pledge Your Allegiance to a Flag PART II. THE ACTOR'S APPROACH Lesson 3: Goal and Obstacle Fundamental Principle
Exercise 3-1 Reaching
Exercise 3-2 Reaching for Goals
Exercise 3-3 Overcoming an Obstacle
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 3-4 Doing vs. Being
Projection
Exercise 3-5 Resonating
Exercise 3-6 Resonating (A Continuation)
Exercise 3-7 Goals Lesson 4: Acting with the 'Other' The Other
Exercise 4-1 Making Your Partner Smile
Interactive Dynamics
Exercise 4-2 Vulnerability
Exercise 4-3 Discovery
The Character
Tactics
Exercise 4-4 Using Tactics
Exercise 4-5 One Two Three Four Five Six Seven
Monologues
Exercise 4-6 Inventing the Other Lesson 5: Beginning to Act Contentless Scene
Exercise 5-1 Contentless Scene I
Intensifiers
Exercise 5-2 Intensifying
Physicalizers
Exercise 5-3 Varying Locale or Action
Exercise 5-4 Contentless Scene II Lesson 6: Tactics Punishment and Reward
Playing Tactics
Exercise 6-1 Frighten Your Partner
Exercise 6-2 Building Intensity
Exercise 6-3 Try to Make Your Partner Cry
Exercise 6-4 Movement and Contact
Exercise 6-5 Encourage Your Partner
Alternating Tactics
Exercise 6-6 Mixing Tactics
The Middle Ranges
Exercise 6-7 Eliminating the Extremes Lesson 7: Expectations Expecting Victory
Exercise 7-1 Playing Bored
Positive Goals
Exercise 7-2 Enthusiasm
Exercise 7-3 Try the Impossible
Eye Contact
Exercise 7-4 Tactics and Expectations Lesson 8: GOTE A Basic Method
"Get Your Character's GOTE"
Exercise 8-1 The GOTEsheet PART III. THE ACTOR'S TASK Lesson 9: Preparing a Role Finding Your Role
Finding Your "Character"
Editing a Scene
Memorization Methods
Cues
Studying the Part
Exercise 9-1 The Gentleman Caller I Lesson 10: Rehearsing Rehearsals
Undirected Rehearsals
Rehearsal Alternatives
Exercise 10-1 The Gentleman Caller II Lesson 11: Staging the Scene Stage Directions
Creating the Locale
Movement and Stage Business
Interesting Positions
Reaching the Audience
Exercise 11-1 Setting the Stage Lesson 12: Choices The Need for Choices
Good Choices
Exercise 12-1 Bold Choices Lesson 13: Performing Stage Fright
Classroom Performance
Play for Results--In the Other Character! Lesson 14: Evaluation and Improvement Helpful Criticism
Reworking
Exercise 14-1 Scene Presentation PART IV. THE ACTOR'S INSTRUMENT Lesson 15: The Actor's Voice Breathing
Exercise 15-1 Breathing from the Abdomen
Phonation: Making Sounds
Exercise 15-2 Sounding
Resonance
Exercise 15-3 Exploring Resonance
Pitch
Exercise 15-4 Exploring Your Pitch Range
A Stageworthy Voice
Exercise 15-5 Speaking with Resonance Lesson 16: Stage Speech Good Diction
Speech Sounds
Exercise 16-1 Vowels
Exercise 16-2 Repeating Syllables
Exercise 16-3 Consonants
Exercise 16-4 Speeches Lesson 17: Using Your Voice Liberation
Exercise 17-1 Rude Chants
Exercise 17-2 Rude Cheering
Exercise 17-3 Fancy Talk
Exercise 17-4 Address a Group
Purposefulness
Exercise 17-5 Adding Purpose Lesson 18: The Actor's Body Agility
Exercise 18-1 Fast Warm-Up
Alignment
Exercise 18-2 Improving Alignment
Walking
Exercise 18-3 Sixteen Walks
Exercise 18-4 Walk and Talk
Sitting and Standing
Exercise 18-5 Walk, Talk, Sit
Velocity: Accelerating, Decelerating, and Constant
Exercise 18-6 Acceleration
Deceleration
Counterpoise
Exercise 18-7 Contraposto
Exercise 18-8 Contraction
Extension
The Dynamics of Effort
Exercise 18-9 Distinct Movements
Exercise 18-10 To Be or Not to Be
Exercise 18-11 Walking and Kicking Lesson 19: Voice and Body Integration Coordination
Exercise 19-1 Commands
Exercise 19-2 Speeches with Business
Exercise 19-3 Physical Punctuation
Exercise 19-4 Physical Rhythms
Exercise 19-5 Verbal Rhythms
Pointing
Exercise 19-6 Pointing
Tempo
Exercise 19-7 Speech
Movement Timing
Actors with Disabilities Lesson 20: Imagination and Creativity Imagination
Creativity
Creativity and Imagination
Using Your Fantasies
Exercise 20-1 Cold
Hot
Exercise 20-2 Age Regression
Advancement
Exercise 20-3 Facing an Imagined Death
Exercise 20-4 Facing Love
Lesson 21: Emotion and Acting Theory Exercise 21-1 Playing (with) Real Emotion I
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 21-2 Playing (with) Real Emotion II
Conclusion PART V. THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE Lesson 22: Phrasing Diction
Open-Mouthed Speaking
Exercise 22-1 A Acting with Your Teeth
Exercise 22-1 B
Exercise 22-1 C
Developing Diction
Exercise 22-2 Repeated Sentences
Exercise 22-3 Shaw Speech
Emphasis
Exercise 22-4 Change of Emphasis
Exercise 22-5 Punctuate with Emphasis
Inflection
Exercise 22-6 Inflections
Phrasing Lesson 23: Attack The First Word
Physical Attack
Turn-Taking
Exercise 23-1 Turn-Taking Dialog
Preparing Strong Attacks
Exercise 23-2 Action Cues Lesson 24: Follow-Through The Hook
Questions as Questions
Statements as Questions
Exercise 24-1 Making Questions
Statements as Statements
Exercise 24-2 Argument-Enders
Trail-offs Lesson 25: Line Linkage Analyzing Dialog
Rising End-Inflections
Falling End-Inflections
Attack Inflections
Pauses
Long Speeches
Exercise 25-1 Line Linking
Exercise 25-2 The Long Speech
Line Linking in Practice Lesson 26: Scene Structure Breaking Down a Script
Choosing a Scene to Do in Class
Structural Characteristics
Transitions
Scene Breakdown
Exercise 26-1 Scene Structure in Action Lesson 27: Building a Scene Building and Topping
Exercise 27-1 Standard Build I
Exercise 27-2 Standard Build II
Exercise 27-3 Standard Build III
Cutting Back
Getting on Top
Pacing a Build
Complex Builds
Exercise 27-4 I Detest Monday
Exercise 27-5 I Detest January
Exercise 27-6 Come Here
Exercise 27-7 Building Molière Lesson 28: Creating a Monologue Going It Alone
The Monologue to Someone Else
The Soliloquy
Playing a Monologue or Soliloquy
Exercise 28-1 Prepare a Monologue
L'Envoi ACTING TWO Introduction Terminology: Style, Character, and performance
Acting Two's Structure
A Word About Gender
Part I. Extensions of Yourself Lesson 1: Style Exercise 1-1 Baby Talk
Exercise 1-2 Baby Moves
Lesson 2: Stylized Exchanges Exercise 2-1 Pig Latin
Exercise 2-2 Speaking in (Foreign) Tongues
Exercise 2-3 Contemporary Greetings
Exercise 2-4 Making Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-5 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-6 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Insults
Exercise 2-7 Hamlet's Greeting to the Players Lesson 3: Roses Are Red Rhyme and Verse
Exercise 3-1 Roses Are Red
Exercise 3-2 Roses Are Redder--Take One
Eye Contact--And Looking Elsewhere
Exercise 3-3 Roses Are Redder--Take Two
Exercise 3-4 Roses Are Redder--Take Three
Thinking Your Character's Thoughts
Exercise 3-5 Roses Are Redder--Take Four
Playing the Play Lesson 4: Playing God Exercise 4-1 Playing God
Playing a Character Lesson 5: Characterization Exercise 5-1 Reciprocal Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Exercise 5-2 Intrinsic Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Intrinsic Characterizations: Extensions and Stereotypes
Centering
Exercise 5-3 Centering
Character Postures and Walks
Exercise 5-4 Character Walks
Character Voices
Exercise 5-5 Finding Your Voices
Character Descriptions
Exercise 5-6 Playing Out Character Descriptions
Animal Imagery
Exercise 5-7 Animate (Animalize) Your Character
Intrinsic and Reciprocal Characterization
Exercise 5-8 Character Greetings Lesson 6: More God Exercise 6-1 A Stanza, by God Lesson 7: The Battle of the Sexes: Noah and His Wife Scene 7-1 Noah and His Wife Lesson 8: Performance: Being Public in Private Exercise 8-1 A Performative God
Performative Aspects of Dramatic Scenes
Exercise 8-2 Performing Your Greetings and Insults
The Audience in the Theatre
Scene 8-3 The Performative Context: Oedipus and Creon
Exercise 8-4 The Performative Context: Shakespeare
Exercise 8-5 the Performative Context: Chekhov Part II. The Scenes Lesson 9: Greek Tragedy Scene 9-1 Politician vs. Prophet: Oedipus and Teiresias
More Greek Scenes
Lesson 10: The Commedia Commedia Styles and Scripts
Commedia Performances
Commedia and Renaissance Ideals
Acting Commedia: Machiavelli's Clizia
Exercise 10-1 Commedia: Direct Address
Commedia Lazzi
Scene 10-1 Nicomaco and Sofronia
Stock Characters
More Commedia Scenes Lesson 11: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre Scene 11-1 The Past Made Vivid: Richard and Ann
Scansion
Verse Variations
Playing the Verse
Rhetoric
Playing and Building the Rhetoric
The Public Environment
Scene 11-2 A Merry War: Beatrice and Benedick
Shakespeare and Commedia
More Elizabethan Scenes Lesson 12: The Theatre of Molière Scene 12-1 Physical Comedy
Jourdain and the Philosopher
Molière and Commedia
Costume and Deportment
French Verse
Scene 12-2 Quarreling in Couplets: Alceste and Celimène
Lesson 13: Restoration Comedy Exercise 13-1 Restoration Speeches
Scene 13-1 Sexual Banter
Lesson 14: The Belle Epoque George Bernard Shaw
Exercise 14-1 Shaw's Political Speeches
Anton Chekhov
Scene 14-1 Chekhov's Symphony of Feeling Oscar Wilde
Scene 14-2 Wilde's Comedy of (Male) Manners
Exercise 14-3 Wilde's Comedy of (Female) Manners Lesson 15: The Hyperthe atre Eugene Ionesco: Theater of the Absurd
Exercise 15-1 Theatre of Absurd: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bertolt Brecht: Theater of Distancing
Scene 15-2 Distancing in Szechuan
Verfremdung in Everyday Life Lesson 16: Contemporary Styles Clashing Cultures
16-1 Prior and Harper
Clashing Subcultures
16-2 Boy Willie and Grace
Clashing Professions
16-3 Vivian and Jason
Solo performer, Multiple Roles L'Envoi A Glossary of Acting Terms Index
Preface ACTING ONE Introduction PART I. PREPARATION FOR ACTING Lesson 1: Preparing to Act Relaxation
Exercise 1-1 Relaxation
Trust
Exercise 1-2 Spine Lengthening
Exuberance
Exercise 1-3 BAM-POW, Dance, Sing
Discipline
Criticism
A Playful Attitude
Freedom
Preparation Lesson 2: What Is Acting? Exercise 2-1 Pledge Your Allegiance to a Flag PART II. THE ACTOR'S APPROACH Lesson 3: Goal and Obstacle Fundamental Principle
Exercise 3-1 Reaching
Exercise 3-2 Reaching for Goals
Exercise 3-3 Overcoming an Obstacle
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 3-4 Doing vs. Being
Projection
Exercise 3-5 Resonating
Exercise 3-6 Resonating (A Continuation)
Exercise 3-7 Goals Lesson 4: Acting with the 'Other' The Other
Exercise 4-1 Making Your Partner Smile
Interactive Dynamics
Exercise 4-2 Vulnerability
Exercise 4-3 Discovery
The Character
Tactics
Exercise 4-4 Using Tactics
Exercise 4-5 One Two Three Four Five Six Seven
Monologues
Exercise 4-6 Inventing the Other Lesson 5: Beginning to Act Contentless Scene
Exercise 5-1 Contentless Scene I
Intensifiers
Exercise 5-2 Intensifying
Physicalizers
Exercise 5-3 Varying Locale or Action
Exercise 5-4 Contentless Scene II Lesson 6: Tactics Punishment and Reward
Playing Tactics
Exercise 6-1 Frighten Your Partner
Exercise 6-2 Building Intensity
Exercise 6-3 Try to Make Your Partner Cry
Exercise 6-4 Movement and Contact
Exercise 6-5 Encourage Your Partner
Alternating Tactics
Exercise 6-6 Mixing Tactics
The Middle Ranges
Exercise 6-7 Eliminating the Extremes Lesson 7: Expectations Expecting Victory
Exercise 7-1 Playing Bored
Positive Goals
Exercise 7-2 Enthusiasm
Exercise 7-3 Try the Impossible
Eye Contact
Exercise 7-4 Tactics and Expectations Lesson 8: GOTE A Basic Method
"Get Your Character's GOTE"
Exercise 8-1 The GOTEsheet PART III. THE ACTOR'S TASK Lesson 9: Preparing a Role Finding Your Role
Finding Your "Character"
Editing a Scene
Memorization Methods
Cues
Studying the Part
Exercise 9-1 The Gentleman Caller I Lesson 10: Rehearsing Rehearsals
Undirected Rehearsals
Rehearsal Alternatives
Exercise 10-1 The Gentleman Caller II Lesson 11: Staging the Scene Stage Directions
Creating the Locale
Movement and Stage Business
Interesting Positions
Reaching the Audience
Exercise 11-1 Setting the Stage Lesson 12: Choices The Need for Choices
Good Choices
Exercise 12-1 Bold Choices Lesson 13: Performing Stage Fright
Classroom Performance
Play for Results--In the Other Character! Lesson 14: Evaluation and Improvement Helpful Criticism
Reworking
Exercise 14-1 Scene Presentation PART IV. THE ACTOR'S INSTRUMENT Lesson 15: The Actor's Voice Breathing
Exercise 15-1 Breathing from the Abdomen
Phonation: Making Sounds
Exercise 15-2 Sounding
Resonance
Exercise 15-3 Exploring Resonance
Pitch
Exercise 15-4 Exploring Your Pitch Range
A Stageworthy Voice
Exercise 15-5 Speaking with Resonance Lesson 16: Stage Speech Good Diction
Speech Sounds
Exercise 16-1 Vowels
Exercise 16-2 Repeating Syllables
Exercise 16-3 Consonants
Exercise 16-4 Speeches Lesson 17: Using Your Voice Liberation
Exercise 17-1 Rude Chants
Exercise 17-2 Rude Cheering
Exercise 17-3 Fancy Talk
Exercise 17-4 Address a Group
Purposefulness
Exercise 17-5 Adding Purpose Lesson 18: The Actor's Body Agility
Exercise 18-1 Fast Warm-Up
Alignment
Exercise 18-2 Improving Alignment
Walking
Exercise 18-3 Sixteen Walks
Exercise 18-4 Walk and Talk
Sitting and Standing
Exercise 18-5 Walk, Talk, Sit
Velocity: Accelerating, Decelerating, and Constant
Exercise 18-6 Acceleration
Deceleration
Counterpoise
Exercise 18-7 Contraposto
Exercise 18-8 Contraction
Extension
The Dynamics of Effort
Exercise 18-9 Distinct Movements
Exercise 18-10 To Be or Not to Be
Exercise 18-11 Walking and Kicking Lesson 19: Voice and Body Integration Coordination
Exercise 19-1 Commands
Exercise 19-2 Speeches with Business
Exercise 19-3 Physical Punctuation
Exercise 19-4 Physical Rhythms
Exercise 19-5 Verbal Rhythms
Pointing
Exercise 19-6 Pointing
Tempo
Exercise 19-7 Speech
Movement Timing
Actors with Disabilities Lesson 20: Imagination and Creativity Imagination
Creativity
Creativity and Imagination
Using Your Fantasies
Exercise 20-1 Cold
Hot
Exercise 20-2 Age Regression
Advancement
Exercise 20-3 Facing an Imagined Death
Exercise 20-4 Facing Love
Lesson 21: Emotion and Acting Theory Exercise 21-1 Playing (with) Real Emotion I
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 21-2 Playing (with) Real Emotion II
Conclusion PART V. THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE Lesson 22: Phrasing Diction
Open-Mouthed Speaking
Exercise 22-1 A Acting with Your Teeth
Exercise 22-1 B
Exercise 22-1 C
Developing Diction
Exercise 22-2 Repeated Sentences
Exercise 22-3 Shaw Speech
Emphasis
Exercise 22-4 Change of Emphasis
Exercise 22-5 Punctuate with Emphasis
Inflection
Exercise 22-6 Inflections
Phrasing Lesson 23: Attack The First Word
Physical Attack
Turn-Taking
Exercise 23-1 Turn-Taking Dialog
Preparing Strong Attacks
Exercise 23-2 Action Cues Lesson 24: Follow-Through The Hook
Questions as Questions
Statements as Questions
Exercise 24-1 Making Questions
Statements as Statements
Exercise 24-2 Argument-Enders
Trail-offs Lesson 25: Line Linkage Analyzing Dialog
Rising End-Inflections
Falling End-Inflections
Attack Inflections
Pauses
Long Speeches
Exercise 25-1 Line Linking
Exercise 25-2 The Long Speech
Line Linking in Practice Lesson 26: Scene Structure Breaking Down a Script
Choosing a Scene to Do in Class
Structural Characteristics
Transitions
Scene Breakdown
Exercise 26-1 Scene Structure in Action Lesson 27: Building a Scene Building and Topping
Exercise 27-1 Standard Build I
Exercise 27-2 Standard Build II
Exercise 27-3 Standard Build III
Cutting Back
Getting on Top
Pacing a Build
Complex Builds
Exercise 27-4 I Detest Monday
Exercise 27-5 I Detest January
Exercise 27-6 Come Here
Exercise 27-7 Building Molière Lesson 28: Creating a Monologue Going It Alone
The Monologue to Someone Else
The Soliloquy
Playing a Monologue or Soliloquy
Exercise 28-1 Prepare a Monologue
L'Envoi ACTING TWO Introduction Terminology: Style, Character, and performance
Acting Two's Structure
A Word About Gender
Part I. Extensions of Yourself Lesson 1: Style Exercise 1-1 Baby Talk
Exercise 1-2 Baby Moves
Lesson 2: Stylized Exchanges Exercise 2-1 Pig Latin
Exercise 2-2 Speaking in (Foreign) Tongues
Exercise 2-3 Contemporary Greetings
Exercise 2-4 Making Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-5 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-6 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Insults
Exercise 2-7 Hamlet's Greeting to the Players Lesson 3: Roses Are Red Rhyme and Verse
Exercise 3-1 Roses Are Red
Exercise 3-2 Roses Are Redder--Take One
Eye Contact--And Looking Elsewhere
Exercise 3-3 Roses Are Redder--Take Two
Exercise 3-4 Roses Are Redder--Take Three
Thinking Your Character's Thoughts
Exercise 3-5 Roses Are Redder--Take Four
Playing the Play Lesson 4: Playing God Exercise 4-1 Playing God
Playing a Character Lesson 5: Characterization Exercise 5-1 Reciprocal Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Exercise 5-2 Intrinsic Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Intrinsic Characterizations: Extensions and Stereotypes
Centering
Exercise 5-3 Centering
Character Postures and Walks
Exercise 5-4 Character Walks
Character Voices
Exercise 5-5 Finding Your Voices
Character Descriptions
Exercise 5-6 Playing Out Character Descriptions
Animal Imagery
Exercise 5-7 Animate (Animalize) Your Character
Intrinsic and Reciprocal Characterization
Exercise 5-8 Character Greetings Lesson 6: More God Exercise 6-1 A Stanza, by God Lesson 7: The Battle of the Sexes: Noah and His Wife Scene 7-1 Noah and His Wife Lesson 8: Performance: Being Public in Private Exercise 8-1 A Performative God
Performative Aspects of Dramatic Scenes
Exercise 8-2 Performing Your Greetings and Insults
The Audience in the Theatre
Scene 8-3 The Performative Context: Oedipus and Creon
Exercise 8-4 The Performative Context: Shakespeare
Exercise 8-5 the Performative Context: Chekhov Part II. The Scenes Lesson 9: Greek Tragedy Scene 9-1 Politician vs. Prophet: Oedipus and Teiresias
More Greek Scenes
Lesson 10: The Commedia Commedia Styles and Scripts
Commedia Performances
Commedia and Renaissance Ideals
Acting Commedia: Machiavelli's Clizia
Exercise 10-1 Commedia: Direct Address
Commedia Lazzi
Scene 10-1 Nicomaco and Sofronia
Stock Characters
More Commedia Scenes Lesson 11: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre Scene 11-1 The Past Made Vivid: Richard and Ann
Scansion
Verse Variations
Playing the Verse
Rhetoric
Playing and Building the Rhetoric
The Public Environment
Scene 11-2 A Merry War: Beatrice and Benedick
Shakespeare and Commedia
More Elizabethan Scenes Lesson 12: The Theatre of Molière Scene 12-1 Physical Comedy
Jourdain and the Philosopher
Molière and Commedia
Costume and Deportment
French Verse
Scene 12-2 Quarreling in Couplets: Alceste and Celimène
Lesson 13: Restoration Comedy Exercise 13-1 Restoration Speeches
Scene 13-1 Sexual Banter
Lesson 14: The Belle Epoque George Bernard Shaw
Exercise 14-1 Shaw's Political Speeches
Anton Chekhov
Scene 14-1 Chekhov's Symphony of Feeling Oscar Wilde
Scene 14-2 Wilde's Comedy of (Male) Manners
Exercise 14-3 Wilde's Comedy of (Female) Manners Lesson 15: The Hyperthe atre Eugene Ionesco: Theater of the Absurd
Exercise 15-1 Theatre of Absurd: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bertolt Brecht: Theater of Distancing
Scene 15-2 Distancing in Szechuan
Verfremdung in Everyday Life Lesson 16: Contemporary Styles Clashing Cultures
16-1 Prior and Harper
Clashing Subcultures
16-2 Boy Willie and Grace
Clashing Professions
16-3 Vivian and Jason
Solo performer, Multiple Roles L'Envoi A Glossary of Acting Terms Index
Exercise 1-1 Relaxation
Trust
Exercise 1-2 Spine Lengthening
Exuberance
Exercise 1-3 BAM-POW, Dance, Sing
Discipline
Criticism
A Playful Attitude
Freedom
Preparation Lesson 2: What Is Acting? Exercise 2-1 Pledge Your Allegiance to a Flag PART II. THE ACTOR'S APPROACH Lesson 3: Goal and Obstacle Fundamental Principle
Exercise 3-1 Reaching
Exercise 3-2 Reaching for Goals
Exercise 3-3 Overcoming an Obstacle
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 3-4 Doing vs. Being
Projection
Exercise 3-5 Resonating
Exercise 3-6 Resonating (A Continuation)
Exercise 3-7 Goals Lesson 4: Acting with the 'Other' The Other
Exercise 4-1 Making Your Partner Smile
Interactive Dynamics
Exercise 4-2 Vulnerability
Exercise 4-3 Discovery
The Character
Tactics
Exercise 4-4 Using Tactics
Exercise 4-5 One Two Three Four Five Six Seven
Monologues
Exercise 4-6 Inventing the Other Lesson 5: Beginning to Act Contentless Scene
Exercise 5-1 Contentless Scene I
Intensifiers
Exercise 5-2 Intensifying
Physicalizers
Exercise 5-3 Varying Locale or Action
Exercise 5-4 Contentless Scene II Lesson 6: Tactics Punishment and Reward
Playing Tactics
Exercise 6-1 Frighten Your Partner
Exercise 6-2 Building Intensity
Exercise 6-3 Try to Make Your Partner Cry
Exercise 6-4 Movement and Contact
Exercise 6-5 Encourage Your Partner
Alternating Tactics
Exercise 6-6 Mixing Tactics
The Middle Ranges
Exercise 6-7 Eliminating the Extremes Lesson 7: Expectations Expecting Victory
Exercise 7-1 Playing Bored
Positive Goals
Exercise 7-2 Enthusiasm
Exercise 7-3 Try the Impossible
Eye Contact
Exercise 7-4 Tactics and Expectations Lesson 8: GOTE A Basic Method
"Get Your Character's GOTE"
Exercise 8-1 The GOTEsheet PART III. THE ACTOR'S TASK Lesson 9: Preparing a Role Finding Your Role
Finding Your "Character"
Editing a Scene
Memorization Methods
Cues
Studying the Part
Exercise 9-1 The Gentleman Caller I Lesson 10: Rehearsing Rehearsals
Undirected Rehearsals
Rehearsal Alternatives
Exercise 10-1 The Gentleman Caller II Lesson 11: Staging the Scene Stage Directions
Creating the Locale
Movement and Stage Business
Interesting Positions
Reaching the Audience
Exercise 11-1 Setting the Stage Lesson 12: Choices The Need for Choices
Good Choices
Exercise 12-1 Bold Choices Lesson 13: Performing Stage Fright
Classroom Performance
Play for Results--In the Other Character! Lesson 14: Evaluation and Improvement Helpful Criticism
Reworking
Exercise 14-1 Scene Presentation PART IV. THE ACTOR'S INSTRUMENT Lesson 15: The Actor's Voice Breathing
Exercise 15-1 Breathing from the Abdomen
Phonation: Making Sounds
Exercise 15-2 Sounding
Resonance
Exercise 15-3 Exploring Resonance
Pitch
Exercise 15-4 Exploring Your Pitch Range
A Stageworthy Voice
Exercise 15-5 Speaking with Resonance Lesson 16: Stage Speech Good Diction
Speech Sounds
Exercise 16-1 Vowels
Exercise 16-2 Repeating Syllables
Exercise 16-3 Consonants
Exercise 16-4 Speeches Lesson 17: Using Your Voice Liberation
Exercise 17-1 Rude Chants
Exercise 17-2 Rude Cheering
Exercise 17-3 Fancy Talk
Exercise 17-4 Address a Group
Purposefulness
Exercise 17-5 Adding Purpose Lesson 18: The Actor's Body Agility
Exercise 18-1 Fast Warm-Up
Alignment
Exercise 18-2 Improving Alignment
Walking
Exercise 18-3 Sixteen Walks
Exercise 18-4 Walk and Talk
Sitting and Standing
Exercise 18-5 Walk, Talk, Sit
Velocity: Accelerating, Decelerating, and Constant
Exercise 18-6 Acceleration
Deceleration
Counterpoise
Exercise 18-7 Contraposto
Exercise 18-8 Contraction
Extension
The Dynamics of Effort
Exercise 18-9 Distinct Movements
Exercise 18-10 To Be or Not to Be
Exercise 18-11 Walking and Kicking Lesson 19: Voice and Body Integration Coordination
Exercise 19-1 Commands
Exercise 19-2 Speeches with Business
Exercise 19-3 Physical Punctuation
Exercise 19-4 Physical Rhythms
Exercise 19-5 Verbal Rhythms
Pointing
Exercise 19-6 Pointing
Tempo
Exercise 19-7 Speech
Movement Timing
Actors with Disabilities Lesson 20: Imagination and Creativity Imagination
Creativity
Creativity and Imagination
Using Your Fantasies
Exercise 20-1 Cold
Hot
Exercise 20-2 Age Regression
Advancement
Exercise 20-3 Facing an Imagined Death
Exercise 20-4 Facing Love
Lesson 21: Emotion and Acting Theory Exercise 21-1 Playing (with) Real Emotion I
Self-Consciousness
Exercise 21-2 Playing (with) Real Emotion II
Conclusion PART V. THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE Lesson 22: Phrasing Diction
Open-Mouthed Speaking
Exercise 22-1 A Acting with Your Teeth
Exercise 22-1 B
Exercise 22-1 C
Developing Diction
Exercise 22-2 Repeated Sentences
Exercise 22-3 Shaw Speech
Emphasis
Exercise 22-4 Change of Emphasis
Exercise 22-5 Punctuate with Emphasis
Inflection
Exercise 22-6 Inflections
Phrasing Lesson 23: Attack The First Word
Physical Attack
Turn-Taking
Exercise 23-1 Turn-Taking Dialog
Preparing Strong Attacks
Exercise 23-2 Action Cues Lesson 24: Follow-Through The Hook
Questions as Questions
Statements as Questions
Exercise 24-1 Making Questions
Statements as Statements
Exercise 24-2 Argument-Enders
Trail-offs Lesson 25: Line Linkage Analyzing Dialog
Rising End-Inflections
Falling End-Inflections
Attack Inflections
Pauses
Long Speeches
Exercise 25-1 Line Linking
Exercise 25-2 The Long Speech
Line Linking in Practice Lesson 26: Scene Structure Breaking Down a Script
Choosing a Scene to Do in Class
Structural Characteristics
Transitions
Scene Breakdown
Exercise 26-1 Scene Structure in Action Lesson 27: Building a Scene Building and Topping
Exercise 27-1 Standard Build I
Exercise 27-2 Standard Build II
Exercise 27-3 Standard Build III
Cutting Back
Getting on Top
Pacing a Build
Complex Builds
Exercise 27-4 I Detest Monday
Exercise 27-5 I Detest January
Exercise 27-6 Come Here
Exercise 27-7 Building Molière Lesson 28: Creating a Monologue Going It Alone
The Monologue to Someone Else
The Soliloquy
Playing a Monologue or Soliloquy
Exercise 28-1 Prepare a Monologue
L'Envoi ACTING TWO Introduction Terminology: Style, Character, and performance
Acting Two's Structure
A Word About Gender
Part I. Extensions of Yourself Lesson 1: Style Exercise 1-1 Baby Talk
Exercise 1-2 Baby Moves
Lesson 2: Stylized Exchanges Exercise 2-1 Pig Latin
Exercise 2-2 Speaking in (Foreign) Tongues
Exercise 2-3 Contemporary Greetings
Exercise 2-4 Making Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-5 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Greetings
Exercise 2-6 Ad-Libbing Elizabethan Insults
Exercise 2-7 Hamlet's Greeting to the Players Lesson 3: Roses Are Red Rhyme and Verse
Exercise 3-1 Roses Are Red
Exercise 3-2 Roses Are Redder--Take One
Eye Contact--And Looking Elsewhere
Exercise 3-3 Roses Are Redder--Take Two
Exercise 3-4 Roses Are Redder--Take Three
Thinking Your Character's Thoughts
Exercise 3-5 Roses Are Redder--Take Four
Playing the Play Lesson 4: Playing God Exercise 4-1 Playing God
Playing a Character Lesson 5: Characterization Exercise 5-1 Reciprocal Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Exercise 5-2 Intrinsic Characterization: Richard and Hastings
Intrinsic Characterizations: Extensions and Stereotypes
Centering
Exercise 5-3 Centering
Character Postures and Walks
Exercise 5-4 Character Walks
Character Voices
Exercise 5-5 Finding Your Voices
Character Descriptions
Exercise 5-6 Playing Out Character Descriptions
Animal Imagery
Exercise 5-7 Animate (Animalize) Your Character
Intrinsic and Reciprocal Characterization
Exercise 5-8 Character Greetings Lesson 6: More God Exercise 6-1 A Stanza, by God Lesson 7: The Battle of the Sexes: Noah and His Wife Scene 7-1 Noah and His Wife Lesson 8: Performance: Being Public in Private Exercise 8-1 A Performative God
Performative Aspects of Dramatic Scenes
Exercise 8-2 Performing Your Greetings and Insults
The Audience in the Theatre
Scene 8-3 The Performative Context: Oedipus and Creon
Exercise 8-4 The Performative Context: Shakespeare
Exercise 8-5 the Performative Context: Chekhov Part II. The Scenes Lesson 9: Greek Tragedy Scene 9-1 Politician vs. Prophet: Oedipus and Teiresias
More Greek Scenes
Lesson 10: The Commedia Commedia Styles and Scripts
Commedia Performances
Commedia and Renaissance Ideals
Acting Commedia: Machiavelli's Clizia
Exercise 10-1 Commedia: Direct Address
Commedia Lazzi
Scene 10-1 Nicomaco and Sofronia
Stock Characters
More Commedia Scenes Lesson 11: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre Scene 11-1 The Past Made Vivid: Richard and Ann
Scansion
Verse Variations
Playing the Verse
Rhetoric
Playing and Building the Rhetoric
The Public Environment
Scene 11-2 A Merry War: Beatrice and Benedick
Shakespeare and Commedia
More Elizabethan Scenes Lesson 12: The Theatre of Molière Scene 12-1 Physical Comedy
Jourdain and the Philosopher
Molière and Commedia
Costume and Deportment
French Verse
Scene 12-2 Quarreling in Couplets: Alceste and Celimène
Lesson 13: Restoration Comedy Exercise 13-1 Restoration Speeches
Scene 13-1 Sexual Banter
Lesson 14: The Belle Epoque George Bernard Shaw
Exercise 14-1 Shaw's Political Speeches
Anton Chekhov
Scene 14-1 Chekhov's Symphony of Feeling Oscar Wilde
Scene 14-2 Wilde's Comedy of (Male) Manners
Exercise 14-3 Wilde's Comedy of (Female) Manners Lesson 15: The Hyperthe atre Eugene Ionesco: Theater of the Absurd
Exercise 15-1 Theatre of Absurd: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bertolt Brecht: Theater of Distancing
Scene 15-2 Distancing in Szechuan
Verfremdung in Everyday Life Lesson 16: Contemporary Styles Clashing Cultures
16-1 Prior and Harper
Clashing Subcultures
16-2 Boy Willie and Grace
Clashing Professions
16-3 Vivian and Jason
Solo performer, Multiple Roles L'Envoi A Glossary of Acting Terms Index