Actor Training

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Description

Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and perfect-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it much more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to the moment and plenty of chapters are revised. As well as, eight more practitioners are included – and forty more photographs – to create a stunningly comprehensive study.

The practitioners included are:

Stella Adler; Eugenio Barba; Augusto Boal; Anne Bogart; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Brook; Michael Chekhov; Joseph Chaikin; Jacques Copeau; Philippe Gaulier; Jerzy Grotowski; Maria Knebel; Jacques Lecoq; Joan Littlewood; Sanford Meisner; Vsevolod Meyerhold; Ariane Mnouchkine; Monika Pagneux; Michel Saint-Denis; Włodzimierz Staniewski; Konstantin Stanislavsky; Lee Strasberg

The historical, cultural and political context of each and every practitioner’s work is clearly set out by leading experts and accompanied by an incisive and enlightening analysis of the principle principles in their training, practical exercises and key productions.

This book is a useful introduction to the principles and practice of actor training and its role in shaping brand new theatre.



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