- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A lively, critical study of one of the most important innovators, thinkers and directors in contemporary world theatre: Tadashi Suzuki. This book explores Suzuki's theatre practice and contains accompanying video content with practical Suzuki Method actor-training examples.
For over forty years Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theatre, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his most famous production, The Trojan Women, which toured throughout the world.
Dr Paul Allain, an experienced practitioner of the Suzuki Method, re-evaluates Suzuki's work, his development towards an international theatre aesthetic and his impact on performance all over the world.
The accompanying video content covers an actor training session (featuring both novices and an experienced practitioner with over ten years of Suzuki training) showing the physical moves.
"Captures aspects of Suzuki's work with an insider's grasp of theatre-making - an informative and inspirational read" From the foreword by Katie Mitchell.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- A Note on the Video Content
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- ONE: Introducing Suzuki: Inspirational Sources, Festivals and Theatre Communities
- TWO: Suzuki Now
- THREE: Suzuki's Spaces: Toga Village, Mito City, Shizuoka, A Sacred and Open Home
- FOUR: The Suzuki Method: The Basic Exercises, Ten Ways of Walking, Slow ten tekka ten, Stamping Shakuhachi, Standing and Sitting Statues, Voice, Fundamental Principles, Questions of Training, Voice and Cross-cultural Investigations, New Explorations
- FIVE: Suzuki's Performance Practice: Collage, On the Dramatic Passions II and Kayoko Shiraishi, The Trojan Women and Greek Adaptations, Shakespeare, Chekhov
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Video Exercises
- Index