Sally Ann Gritton

The Independent Actor (eBook, ePUB)

An Accessible Companion for All Actors

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Independent Actor presents a 21st-century training route achievable by self-curated learning for actors of all skill levels.

This book rejects a purist approach to actor training, challenges traditional acting styles and disregards the embedded elitist notions of Western-training methods at the top of the hierarchy. Instead, it takes a contemporary, self-focused approach to learning and applying acting skills.

Through doing so, the book is the first to validate a self-curated approach to actor training. Designed as a companion to practical experience and useful as a reference sourcebook, it takes the position that each individual actor must find their own process.

Skills for theatre, screen and voice-recorded media are all embraced through practical tasks with signposts to essential reading and specific resources. Designed equally for the untrained actor as a companion and an aide-mémoire for the professionally trained actor, this book sheds light on the practical skills required and how to access, practise and accomplish them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350272620
• Artikelnr.: 72267663

Autorenporträt

Sally Ann Gritton (MA, PGCLTHE, FHEA, FRSA) is the Principal of Mountview, UK. With over 20 years' experience training actors for stage, screen, musical theatre and recorded media, she previously worked as an actor, theatre director and was Artistic Director of Sorted Productions.

Inhaltsangabe

AUTHOR PREFACE FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. TRAINING o Drama School o A
Self-Led Approach o Learning o Embracing Technology 2. WELLBEING o Holistic
Approach o Change o Fear o Calm 3. CREATIVITY o Dreaming o Multi-Hyphenated
Artists 4. PROCESS o Preparation o Rehearsal o Performance 5. IMAGINATION o
Play o Spontaneity o Storytelling 6. CONNECTION o Listening o Energy o
Endowment 7. CONTEXT o World of the play o Research 8. TEXT o Structure and
Style o Breaking it down o Using text o Subtext 9. CHARACTER o Traits o
Timelines o Transformation 10. VOICE o Freedom o Flexibility o Repetition o
Vocal Health 11. MOVEMENT o Physical training o Presence o Applied skills
12. SPACE o Mis en Scene o Proxemics o Audience 13. PRACTICE AND BEYOND 14.
EXERCISES FOR A SELF-LED ACTOR 15. RESOURCES INDEX