Richard Boleslavsky

Acting: The First Six Lessons (eBook, PDF)

Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre
Redaktion: Blair, Rhonda

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A key text for drama students today. These dramatic dialogues between the teacher and 'The Creature' - an idealistic student - explore the 'craft' of acting according to one of the godfathers of method acting. Now with a new introduction and bibliography.

"This enhanced edition gives the reader an opportunity to explore the craft of acting, improve acting technique, and increase appreciation of good theater practice. It also offers a valuable historical perspective on the birth and evolution of the American acting process in the early 20th century."

CHOICE, Jan 2011

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136939860
• Artikelnr.: 39055052

Autorenporträt

Richard Boleslavsky (1889-1937) (born Ryszard Boleslawski) was a Polish actor and director. He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre and director of its First Studio. He emigrated to New York in the 1920s and was the first teacher of the Stanislavski system of acting in the West. He went on to produce plays on Broadway and was a leading Hollywood director in the 1930s., Rhonda Blair is Professor of Theatre at Southern Methodist University. She is a leading voice on the applications of cognitive science on the acting process and the author of The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience. She is currently the President of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).

Inhaltsangabe

Acting: The First Six Lessons, Richard Boleslavsky; Part 1 The First Lesson; Part 2 The Second Lesson; Part 3 The Third Lesson; Part 4 The Fourth Lesson; Part 5 The Fifth Lesson; Part 6 The Sixth Lesson; Part 7 The "Creative Theatre" Lectures; Part 8 What is the Theatre?; Part 9 What is a Play?; Part 10 What is the Audience?; Part 11 What is an Actor?; Part 12 What is a Theatrical Designer?; Part 13 What is a Theatrical Composer?; Part 14 What is a Collective Work in a Theatre?; Part 15 What is a Theatrical Performance?; Part 16 What is a Mechanical Performance?; Part 17 What is a Creative Theatrical Performance?; Part 18 The Qualifications of a Creative Actor; Part 19 What is the Meaning of "Living the Part ?"; Part 20 What is "Spiritual Concentration?"; Part 21 What is the Spiritual or Affective Memory?; Part 22 How to Use the Affective Memory in Preparing a Part; Part 23 Boleslavsky Lectures from theAmerican Laboratory Theatre; Part 24 Lecture 3; Part 25 Lecture 5; Part 26 Lesson 6; Part 27 Lecture 7; Part 28 Lesson 8; Part 29 Lesson 9; Part 30 Lecture 10; Part 31 Lecture 11; Part 32 Notes on Acting with Maria Ouspenskaya; Part 33 October 1954; Part 34 November 1954; Part 35 December 1954; Part 36 January 1955;