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Focal Press Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence

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Focal Press Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence
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  • By Bella Merlin and Tina Packer
  • Paperback, 342 Pages
  • 42 Black & White Illustrations
  • Publisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis
Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence from Focal Press 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.
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Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence from Focal Press 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Drawing on hitherto unpublished material—including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries—and the Company's newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working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.

Table of Contents
List of figures
Foreword - Allyn Burrows
Preface
Acknowledgements
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
About the Authors
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.

Focal Press 9780367262556Specs

Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
March 31, 2020
Author
Bella Merlin
Tina Packer
Includes Images
Yes (B&W Only)
ISBN Number
9780367262556
Cover Type
Soft
Number of Pages
342

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