Performing skills

Author: Morrison
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book emphasizes the practicality of performance, covering various performance techniques and methods, as well as the ways to cultivate and improve these skills. The author explores multifaceted training issues in a vivid and distinctive style; voice and word, the use of voice in performance, movement and body language, imagination and creativity. The author also helps actors understand and enhance their skills through examples and exercises. The book dedicates a chapter to explaining the specific requirements of performing Shakespearean plays. The author also conducts an in-depth textual analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire, dissecting the main characters and demonstrating how to extract as much information and meaning as possible from the text. The book also has a dedicated discussion on issues of theater education, which will undoubtedly benefit theater educators and students. Additionally, there is an interesting exploration of small theaters and touring in one chapter.