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ISBN-10 :  036726255X 

ISBN-13 :  9780367262556

Author:  Bella Merlin, Tina Packer 

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 Drawing on hitherto unpublished material – including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries – and the Company’s newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working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.

 

Shakespeare Company When Action is Eloquence 1st Table of contents:

ACT I: HISTORY AND ROOTS  

1. Visions and Revisions: The Company is Formed  

2. Bricks and Mortar, Trellis and Trees: An Aesthetic is Realized  

3. Talk #1: Function of the Theatre  

ACT II: TRAINING  

4. Evolution and Influences of the Month-Long Intensive  

5. Talk #2: Actor/Audience Relationship  

6. Voice Work & Basics  

7. Text Work & Dropping In  

8. Body Work & Bringing It All Together  

ACT III: EDUCATION  

9. Practical Pedagogy  

10. Shakespeare in the Schools  

11. Shakespeare on the Campus  

12. Shakespeare in the Courts  

ACT IV: PERFORMANCE  

13. The Art Form of Performance  

14. Talk #3: Theatre, Therapy and Theology  

15. Cymbeline

 

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