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Acting with Style, 3/E
John Harrop, Late
Sabin R. Epstein, Professional Director and Actor Trainer, Los Angeles

ISBN-10: 0205295827
ISBN-13: 9780205295821

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2000
Format: Cloth; 344 pp
Published: 10/14/1999

Suggested retail price: $133.80
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Recognized as a classic in its field, Acting with Style continues to be an invaluable guide to the process of approaching plays. The Third Edition retains all of the significant facts, data, information, and exercises, and offers a clear and warm writing style that expresses a sensitivity to the needs of actors.

In addition to presenting the physical approach to actor training, the authors encourage readers to use the text materials and concepts with creativity and imagination — asserting that the process of discovering language is not limited to one specific time, place, or culture.

  • Offers a clearly defined physical methodology for approaching the creation of a character.
  • Helps students understand how to read a text for the clues of character, which can then be translated into the creation of the character mask.
  • Explores progressive stages of acting with style — from an actor's first day of class through the last day of rehearsal for the performance.

  • Includes multiethnic photographs that reinforce the topics and concepts throughout the text and offer more diverse visual illustrations of the timelessness and contemporary values of “style.”
  • Provides a separate chapter on the approach and work of playwright David Mamet — positioning Mamet as the link between the American tradition of “realism” and the European tradition of the “theater of the absurd.”
  • Provides updates and revision where appropriate to reflect contemporary theatrical and cultural thinking.

Most chapters conclude with “Suggested Readings.”

1.General Approach.

Process.

Style and Sensibility.

Creating the Mask.

From Given Circumstances to Style.

I.PLAYING TRAGEDY.

2.Greek.

Background.

Influences.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

Contemporization.

3.Shakespeare.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

II.PLAYING COMEDY.

4.Comedy of Manners.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

5.Farce.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

III.PLAYING REALISM.

6.Realism.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

7.Chekhov.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

IV.PLAYING POSTREALISTIC DRAMA.

8.The Absurd.

Background.

9.Pinter.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

10.Mamet.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

11.Beckett.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

12.Brecht and Epic Theatre.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

13.Artaud, Grotowski, and the Theatre of Physical Metaphor.

Background.

Intrinsic Demands.

Performance Demands.

Exercises, Games, Techniques.

Playing the Style.

Index.

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