1st Edition
Shakespeare & Company When Action is Eloquence
List of figures Forweord - Allyn Burrows Preface Aknowledgements Abbreviations Prologue 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: A Performance Case Study Epilogue: 'On such a full sea are we now afloat' Appendix 1: An Abridged Performance History Appendix 2: An Abridged Dramatis Personae Appendix 3: A Potted Plot of Cymbeline Index
Biography
Bella Merlin is an actor, professor of acting at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of six books on acting, including The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit and Facing the Fear: An Actor’s Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright.
Tina Packer is the multi-award-winning founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company, and has acted and/or directed all of Shakespeare’s plays as well as touring her original take on Shakespeare’s women, Women of Will. Her book of the same name was a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
