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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... protagonist's superobjective and its resolution . But dealing with the resolution of the superobjective isn't the ... protagonist . Will he win ? He must try another way . Will Juliet lose her man ? Will Lady Macbeth win power or will ...
... protagonist's superobjective and its resolution . But dealing with the resolution of the superobjective isn't the ... protagonist . Will he win ? He must try another way . Will Juliet lose her man ? Will Lady Macbeth win power or will ...
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... protagonist . I want to know which character's aspiration drives the dra- matic action forward . I then need to know what obstacles or forces of antagonism the protagonist must confront . Rick in Casablanca wants desperately to hide ...
... protagonist . I want to know which character's aspiration drives the dra- matic action forward . I then need to know what obstacles or forces of antagonism the protagonist must confront . Rick in Casablanca wants desperately to hide ...
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... protagonist . She seems central to the piece and wants so much to love and to win Rick . It makes good sense to hold tentative the first identification of the protagonist . Continued work on the piece may yield new conclusions , espe ...
... protagonist . She seems central to the piece and wants so much to love and to win Rick . It makes good sense to hold tentative the first identification of the protagonist . Continued work on the piece may yield new conclusions , espe ...
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References to this book
Theater: sound space, visual space International Federation for Theatre Research Limited preview - 2003 |