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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... action based on the circumstances of the script . A tradi- tional literary analysis can help after that task is completed . The Structure of Action and Performance Some will object that not all plays are like the classically struc ...
... action based on the circumstances of the script . A tradi- tional literary analysis can help after that task is completed . The Structure of Action and Performance Some will object that not all plays are like the classically struc ...
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... actions for the entire play . Leibman's control of the meaning of the text results from thinking about his lines in terms of the structure of action . His is not an intuitive approach and it's worth noting that his effort won him the ...
... actions for the entire play . Leibman's control of the meaning of the text results from thinking about his lines in terms of the structure of action . His is not an intuitive approach and it's worth noting that his effort won him the ...
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... actions and learning to deal with the structure of action and the circumstances of the text , after working with all those newly found actions , violate the best choices . Articulate inner actions that look to be the very opposite of ...
... actions and learning to deal with the structure of action and the circumstances of the text , after working with all those newly found actions , violate the best choices . Articulate inner actions that look to be the very opposite of ...
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Theater: sound space, visual space International Federation for Theatre Research Limited preview - 2003 |