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Routledge
Emoting is not acting. Reproducing is not acting. Reacting is acting. With this powerful idea, Nick Moseley takes long-held views of actor training and opens them up to a productive new way of thinking about performance. Acting and Reacting stimulates thinking and reflection in both acting students and teachers. For too long, argues Nick Moseley, actor training has worked within superimposed... Read more
Introduction; Stanislavski the Humanist; Mamet the Modernist; The Space Between; Transactional Improvisation - Part One Transactional Improvisation - Part Two Transactional Improvisation - Part Three The World of the Play; Approaches to Text - Part One Inhabiting the Space; Learning to Trust the Body; Voice and Movement; After Meisner; Approaches to Text - Part Two Defamiliarisation ; Subtext ; Shakespeare and the Actor; Concluding Thoughts; Bibliography
Biography
Nick Moseley is Head of Acting at the Italia Conti Academy in London. He studied at Royal Holloway (London University) before becoming first an actor and then a teacher.
