The Technique of Inner Action: The Soul of a Performer's WorkThis book focuses on the inner work of a performer. It takes up where Stanislavski's study of inner work left off and then expands inner action into a comprehensive discipline for developing an inner technique as precise and concrete as those use to develop external skills like voice and movement. Bill Bruehl argues that authentic emotions are expressed when performers focus on the internal aspirations of their character and on the flow of actions in the play. Mastery of inner action allows a performer to interpret a character with clarity, maximize creative potential, and insure authentic expression of emotion and spontaneity in performance. |
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... meaning of the playwright's words . The interpretation of a playwright's work arises from the inner actions the director and actor choose . I want to emphasize this most important point : The actor gives meaning to words by his choice ...
... meaning of the playwright's words . The interpretation of a playwright's work arises from the inner actions the director and actor choose . I want to emphasize this most important point : The actor gives meaning to words by his choice ...
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... meaning to words . Directors and playwrights can only hope to control that process . Only by analyzing the given circumstances of the play and choos- ing inner actions compatible with those circumstances can the actor hope to honor the ...
... meaning to words . Directors and playwrights can only hope to control that process . Only by analyzing the given circumstances of the play and choos- ing inner actions compatible with those circumstances can the actor hope to honor the ...
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... Meaning to Words Think of the simple phrase " I love you . " We have all played with phrases like it , placing emphasis on different words and deriving different meanings from them as in I love you , or I LOVE you , or I love YOU . But ...
... Meaning to Words Think of the simple phrase " I love you . " We have all played with phrases like it , placing emphasis on different words and deriving different meanings from them as in I love you , or I LOVE you , or I love YOU . But ...
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Theater: sound space, visual space International Federation for Theatre Research Limited preview - 2003 |