1st Edition

Notes From An Odin Actress Stones of Water

By Julia Varley Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

‘As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both myself and the character I am playing. I exist in the concreteness of the performance and, at the same time, I need to be alive in the minds and senses of the spectators. How can I speak of this double reality?’ – Julia Varley This is a book about the... Read more

1. First Steps  2. The Dramaturgy of the Actress  3. Training  4. Improvisation and Composition  5. Score and Subscore  6. Text and Subtext  7. The Character  8. The Director  9. The Performance  10. Faces, Words, Landscapes 

Biography

Julia Varley joined Odin Teatret in 1976. She is an active actor, director, teacher and writer. She is closely involved with ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) and the Magdalena Project, a network of women in contemporary theatre. She is also artistic director of the Transit Festival in Holstebro and editor of The Open Page, a journal devoted to women’s work in Theatre. Her articles and essays have been published in journals such as Mime Journal, New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia, Conjunto, Lapis and Máscara .