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Acting: The First Six Lessons: Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre 2nd edition [Minkštas viršelis]

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Edited by (Southern Methodist University, USA),
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 232 pages, aukštis x plotis: 216x138 mm, weight: 286 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 09-Aug-2010
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415563860
  • ISBN-13: 9780415563864
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 232 pages, aukštis x plotis: 216x138 mm, weight: 286 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 09-Aug-2010
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415563860
  • ISBN-13: 9780415563864
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Acting: The First Six Lessons was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher and idealistic student explore the field of acting according to one of the original teachers of Stanislavskys System in America.

This new edition of an essential text is edited by Rhonda Blair and supplemented for the very first time with documents from the American Laboratory Theatre. These collect together a broad range of exciting unpublished material, drawn from Boleslavskys pivotal and unprecedented teachings on acting at the American Laboratory Theatre. Included are:















"The Creative Theatre Lectures" by Richard Boleslavsky





Boleslavskys "Lectures from the American Laboratory Theatre"





"Acting with Maria Ouspenskaya," four short essays on the work of Ouspenskaya, Boleslavskys colleague and fellow actor trainer





A new critical introduction and bibliography by the Editor.
Acknowledgments viii
Editor's introduction ix
Acting: The First Six Lessons
1(64)
Introduction
1(3)
1 The First Lesson: Concentration
4(7)
2 The Second Lesson: Memory of Emotion
11(11)
3 The Third Lesson: Dramatic Action
22(9)
4 The Fourth Lesson: Characterization
31(14)
5 The Fifth Lesson: Observation
45(8)
6 The Sixth Lesson: Rhythm
53(12)
The "Creative Theatre" Lectures
65(56)
Introduction
67(4)
1 What is the theatre?
71(3)
2 What is a play?
74(3)
3 What is the audience?
77(5)
4 What is an actor?
82(2)
5 What is a theatrical designer?
84(4)
6 What is a theatrical composer?
88(4)
7 What is a collective work in a theatre?
92(5)
8 What is a theatrical performance?
97(2)
9 What is a mechanical performance?
99(2)
10 What is a creative theatrical performance?
101(2)
11 The qualifications of a creative actor
103(2)
12 What is the meaning of "Living the Part?"
105(2)
13 What is "Spiritual Concentration?"
107(7)
14 What is the Spiritual or Affective Memory?
114(3)
15 How to use affective memory in preparing a part
117(4)
Boleslavsky lectures from the American Laboratory Theatre
121(60)
1 Lecture 3
123(7)
2 Lecture 5
130(7)
3 Lesson 6
137(5)
4 Lecture 7
142(8)
5 Lesson 8
150(6)
6 Lesson 9
156(8)
7 Lecture 10
164(5)
8 Lecture 11
169(12)
Notes on acting with Maria Ouspenskaya
181
1 October 1954
183(6)
2 November 1954
189(6)
3 December 1954
195(6)
4 January 1955
201
Richard Boleslavsky (18891937) (born Ryszard Boleslawski) was a Polish actor and director. He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre and director of its First Studio. He emigrated to New York in the 1920s and was the first teacher of the Stanislavski system of acting in the West. He went on to produce plays on Broadway and was a leading Hollywood director in the 1930s.



Rhonda Blair is Professor of Theatre at Southern Methodist University. She is a leading voice on the applications of cognitive science on the acting process and the author of The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience. She is currently the President of the American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR).