1st Edition
Acting, Archetype, and Neuroscience Superscenes for Rehearsal and Performance
Preface
Introduction
Section One: Origins
Chapter 1: Returning to Mythic Roots
Physical Beginnings of Acting
Current Actor Training
Current Training
Hymn: To Vulcan (Hephaistos), Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna
Chapter 2: Resurrecting Mythic Stories
Linking Neuroscience and Archetypal Mythology
Chapter 3: Primary Conflict and the Hero’s Journey
Primary Conflict: Order Versus Chaos
Peter and Wendy
Section Two: The Exercises and the Work
Chapter 4: The Exercises
Meditation
Magnets
Push, Pull, Hold, Release
Sticks
Viewpoints
Second Viewpoints Class: Contact and Company
Day Three: Company, Architecture, and Music
Chapter 5: Beginning Superscenes
Text and Archetypes
Fourth Session: Exercise: Using the Monomyth
A Linear Representation of the Hero’s Journey
Inciting Incident: Exact Scene? Exact Line? Exact Rationale?
Chapter 6: Two Hero’s Journeys
The Hero’s Journey of Muhammad Ali
Hamlet’s Journey: A Brief and Debatable Look at Hamlet as Hero
Chapter 7: Bridging and Superscenes
Bridges
Superscenes
Superscenes and Memory
Section Three: Neuroscience and Images
Chapter 8: Mirror Neurons, Emotions, Memory, Meditation, Embodiment, and Images
The Limbic System
The Eternally Balancing Body
Meditation
Phenomenology: The Study of the Experience of Intention
Mirror Neurons
Second Person Interactivity: MNs
The Use of Metaphor, Image, and Active Words
Memory: Images and the Brain
Memory, Archetype, and Mirror Neurons
Memory Consolidation
Chapter 9: Archetypal Patterns
Family Stories
CG Jung
Archetypal Patterns of Plots
Chapter 10: Archetypal Journey; In The Blood by Susan Lori Parks
The Ancient Story, Myth and Archetype
Protagonist/Antagonist Statement
Hester’s Hero’s Journey
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Jane Drake Brody teaches graduate and undergraduate Acting at The Theatre School at DePaul University, following a long career as an actress, director, professional acting coach and casting director. Her many film and TV casting credits include the Oscar winning Fargo, for which she received the Casting Society of America's Best Location Casting Award.
