Essential acting : a practical handbook for actors, teachers and directors

Publication Data

• Title Essential acting : a practical handbook for actors, teachers and directors
• Author Brigid Panet
• Contributor Fiona McHardy
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location London
• Language English

Contents

Making a good start
Experiencing the three essentials
The magic 'if'
Exercises in immediate response
Acting skills, to be applied to rehearsal and performance
Status
Eye-gaze
Confidence, poise and balance
Meeting the play
Bringing the text to life
The actor's work on a character
Unstrung pearls
Breath
Playing the scene
Shakespeare's language
Handling Shakespeare's language
The four elements
Flow
Space
Time
Force
The eight Laban effort actions
Appendix: Some suggestions to help with drama-school auditions.

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Essential acting : a practical handbook for actors, teachers and directors by Brigid Panet. ISBN 9780203882382. Published by Routledge in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.