Chris Pickles

Preparing for Rehearsal (eBook, ePUB)

Approaching the Dramatic Text - One Step at a Time

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the PRE-REHEARSAL analysis of a script. Its aim is to de-mystify and organise the questions necessary to ask in order to prepare for a creative, imaginative and fruitful exploration of a dramatic text in the journey towards rehearsal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040252642
• Artikelnr.: 72279873

Autorenporträt

Chris Pickles is a theatre director, writer, teacher, actor and producer.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
The text
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why write this book?
PART I: THE WHAT
1. The actor's process (or lack of it).
2. Reading number 1: Let the play speak.
3. Research: getting to know you. Context of the play.
4. Reading number 2: What's the story? The essential narrative action.
5. Reading number 3: The archaeology of the character.
6. Reading number 4: What's my story? What is my character's essential
narrative action?
PART II: THE WHY
7. Reading number 5: What is the driving psychological action? Getting
beneath the skin.
8. Reading number 6: What is my character's immediate psychological action
in the unit?
Some selected further reading
Index