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Title: Acting:In Person and In Style by Jerry L. Crawford, Catherine Hurst, Michael Lugering ISBN: 0-697-20133-3 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $72.45 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Delivers What is Promised
Comment: Jerry Crawford's ACTING IN PERSON AND IN STYLE is an excellent acting text for students attempting to re-create roles from classical plays that are vital, relevant to the historical period in which they were written, and relevant to audiences viewing them in the 21st Century. The lessons are based on sound acting theories gleaned from a wide range of acting traditions.
Part One covers a personalized approach to acting that encourages the actor to use one's own qualities in order to "personalize" a role. The basic acting topics covered include Relaxation, Concentration, Movement Dynamics, Sensory Awareness, Roots of Feeling: The Body and Emotion,Imagination and Improvisation, and the Voice in Action. Each area includes a discussion of basic acting principles supported by acting exercises. Elements of effective scene study, auditioning, rehearsal techniques, role analysis, and performance considerations are also treated.
Part Two treats the development of a performance style that is appropriate for effectively performing in classical plays. Classical periods covered include Classical Greek, Commedia Dell' Arte, Elizabethan/Jacobean/Shakespearean, Seventeenth Century French Neoclassicism, Restoration Comedy, Nineteenth Century Realism and Naturalism, Early Twentieth Century Nonrealism, Brecht/Epic, Absurdism, and Eclectic Intermingling. Each style is discussed in terms of its historical context and how basic stylistic elements can be effectively "translated" into a performance style that can be effective for an audience in the twenty-first century.
Taken in total, Crawford successfully demonstrates that although all effective acting shares some common elements, the actor who must perform roles written in various historical periods faces some special performance problems in terms of voice, language, movement, theatrical conventions, and various historical/social/cultural contexts. He is able to demonstrate ways in which these performance problems may be successfully addressed in a modern context.
I highly recommend this text as an important resource in developing a workable approach to creating classical roles with an effective sense of style and clarity.
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Title: Style For Actors by Robert Barton ISBN: 0874849586 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 09 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $74.90 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Play Directing by Alexander Dean, Lawrence Carra ISBN: 003014843X Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $78.95 |
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Title: The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama by Lee A. Jacobus ISBN: 0312255950 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $51.85 |
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Title: Thinking Like a Director : A Practical Handbook by Michael Bloom ISBN: 0571199941 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 17 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sanford Meisner on Acting by Dennis Longwell, Sydney Pollack, Sanford Meisner ISBN: 0394750594 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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