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Stanislavski was the first person to develop a cogent and practical system of acting. Throughout his life he sought the answers to such fundamental questions as: "What is great acting?" and "How can you find inspiration in every performance?" Stanislavski remains the most important influence on actor training today, and yet many of his ideas are little known, or even misunderstood. Stanislavski For Beginners charts the development of the Stanislavski...
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A "how-to" manual written for the independent travelling magician or any other street performer. Includes the specific details on different approaches for street, bar and restaurant. Some of the topics are: picking the right bar, entering the bar, working the crowd, building the tip, the re-hash, what to avoid, and taxes.
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This entire play takes place in Adelaide Australia. The main plot outline of the play is that it is about a woman (Adelaide) who meets a man (Jimmy) and the two fall in love. The two both decide they want to marry each other but when a friend of Jimmy meets Adelaide for the first time, he decides that he is attracted to her as well. After devising a plan, he sets out to break the two apart and convince Adelaide to marry him instead.
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Siguiendo el poemario homónimo de Marguerite Yourcenar, cada uno de los brevísimos poemas dan pie a un pequeño relato teatral sobre enfermos terminales. La delicadeza, el fino tejido de psicologías, las situaciones entrañables a partir de momentos cotidianos, hacen de esta serie de treinta y tres obras breves una dolorosa y reconciliadora visita a la antesala de la muerte, ahí donde se piensa la pequeñez y la grandeza de la condición humana....
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7 PIÈCES: Les Inconsolables (2004); Destin (2005); Anna (2006); Une rencontre (comme une autre) (2007); Une vie d'infortune (2008); Htel idéal (2009); Compartiment non-fumeurs (2009)
Les inconsolables :
Pour éviter d'attendre sous la pluie, quatre croque-morts et leur patron se retrouvent piégés au presbytère pendant la messe d'enterrement d'un important notable local. Ils tuent le temps en se racontant leur vie commune....
Entre vérités...
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Marco Bodoni est écrivain. Auteur de romans policiers aux tirages fabuleux!
Il veut se débarrasser de cette étiquette. Il veut être reconnu à sa « juste valeur ». Il veut tuer son héros, l'Inspecteur Davies. Et passer à autre chose.
Après un dernier ouvrage dans lequel son personnage perd la vie (pas encore publié), il écrit uniquement pour le théâtre... Un jour, lors d'un voyage international en train, une jeune femme vient squatter...
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À l'instar des grandes adaptations qui ont été réalisées, notamment pour le cinéma par Murnau ou Coppola en passant par Herzog, celle-ci met l'accent sur les rapports humains qui égrènent le roman fleuve de Bram Stoker - ce qui pourrait apparaître comme gageure pour une fiction qui traite de morts-vivants!
Il s'agit pourtant ici des rapports d'amitié entre les jeunes Mina et Lucie, des rapports paternels entre le vieux sage Van Helsing...
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The theme of the play is an unorthodox imaginary family compound of heretical characters which many of them, if combined by twos, are the ends of a conscience and a lesson about life to excess of.
Agatha, the chatelaine invites her family in England to celebrate her birthday and tell them who will inherit her huge mansion.
Her brother and her sister, her lifelong friend and physician are some guests of the list. Carl (a psychiatrist), Lou (a linguist...
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Colored Flames presents five original plays from the mind of Florence J. Mills. These plays tug on the human heartstring. They make you laugh and they make you cry. You get a glimpse into the lives of characters who may very well resemble someone you know because the situations are very realistic and riveting. Each play looks at life from a different perspective. Ms. Mills draws on her experience with life as well as her observation of life and moves...
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In The Crafty Art of Playmaking, this seminal guide from renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade.
From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, this book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for those with more experience. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and a heady air of sophistication, The Crafty Art of Playmaking is a must-have for aspiring playwrights,...
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Orpheus and the Maenads A Traditional Play in Blank Verse The preternaturally great poet Orpheus has responded to the loss of his wife Eurydice to the Underworld by forsaking the society of his fellow men in Thrace, where he was a poet-king, and endlessly wandering through field and forest, using his poetic genius to lament his loss. Apollo, the god of poetry, urges him to give up his excessive mourning and return to Thrace and once more sing the...
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To Act Is to Do by RICHARD ALAN NICHOLS, who studied as a scholarship student for five years with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in New York, is the ultimate guide for both actors and teachers.
In six informative and interactive class sessions, Nichols details twenty exercises designed to solve most acting problems that arise while working on plays. Also included are, eighteen evaluations of work (scenes, monologues, and Hagen exercises) presented by...
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Cutting-edge, comprehensive, and effective, Seven Pillars Acting empowers the actor to transform into character with ease and authenticity. Inspired by the great acting teachers of the last century, Seven Pillars Acting is a modern method that provides a structured set of tools and a dependable process to access and cultivate talent. With many students of the technique now working in the entertainment industry, Seven Pillars Acting is changing the...
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De leurs histoires vraies est née cette fausse histoire, et de leurs vulnérabilités s'est tracée l'histoire de Jacques qui détricote sa vie au rythme de l'alcool. De leurs routes concrètes a jailli ce parcours théâtral et poétique.
La mise en scène, lors de la création, introduisait un homme, la quarantaine finissant, costume-cravate, classe moyenne-sup, qui, tout en traçant sa vie, se dévêt, se lave et se rhabille. Une mise à nu rituelle...
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A Bed in the sticks, Lee Dunne's sequel to Goodbye to the Hill opens with the hero, Paddy Maguire returning to Ireland after a short and dismal sojourn to England. He is bowed but undeaten and with his usual optimism embarks on an exploration of stage craft with a touring theatrical company as it winds its way through the small towns of 1950s rural Ireland. Paddy's theatrics on and off the stage, make for a warm, funny and insightful perspective on...
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What does it take to be a musical theatre performer? What kind of training is required to do eight shows a weekacting, dancing, and singing in a wide variety of vocal styles? This insider's look into the unique demands of musical theatre performance establishes connecting links between voice training for the singer and drama school training for the actor. By reading these revealing interviews, performers in every area of theatre can:
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Ayquina, teatralidad de la fiesta religiosa popular de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" de Manuel Letelier aborda una fiesta religiosa poco conocida en nuestro país. Se expone una interpretación teatral referida a la experiencia de fe pública y comunitaria que acontece en la festividad dedicada a la imagen de la Virgen. El libro invita a comprender y descubrir el arte de la fiesta religiosa de Ayquina recorriendo una senda en la que confluye la reactualización...
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The second volume in the series provides an inside view of the creative process involved in the creation of 4 major theatrical productions. Each notebook offers in diary form comprehensive histories of major artistic elements that are the center of the creative process. This volume includes: In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (The Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival); The First Picture Show by David and Ain Gordon (Mark Taper Forum...
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