Shakespeare & Company : When Action is Eloquence Hardback
by Bella Merlin, Tina Packer
Hardback
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Shakespeare Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare’s language at its heart.
Why act Shakespeare? What’s his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company’s aesthetics and practice.
Drawing on hitherto unpublished material – including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries – and the Company’s newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world.
It also details: Shakespeare Company’s founding and early history, Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre’s principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight; and Actor/Audience Relationship, Vocational components of its Training, Intensives, Practical pedagogy of its Educatio programs, Insights into its unique approaches to Performance, Impact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training), Kevin G.
Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director).
Actors, directors, students, educators, scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies, inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over 40 years.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:322 pages, 42 Halftones, black and white; 42 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2020
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- ISBN:9780367086848
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:322 pages, 42 Halftones, black and white; 42 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367086848