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About this book
If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you.
Who are the great teachers and theorists of dramatic art?
What methods are associated with which practitioners?
How does their work connect to one another?
When was 'realism' as a concept born?
How did David Garrick's ideas about acting impact those of Stanislavski, Grotowski and Brecht?
What were the foundational ideas of Joan Littlewood?
All of these questions and many, many more are answered in this book, which offers a refreshingly accessible survey of the major acting teachers from the early 1700s up to the present day.
It looks at what their major influences were, where their ideas came from and their legacy.
Structured by practitioner and arranged in chronological order, this much-needed book brings together the foundational acting theories that have shaped the arts scene for centuries.
Who are the great teachers and theorists of dramatic art?
What methods are associated with which practitioners?
How does their work connect to one another?
When was 'realism' as a concept born?
How did David Garrick's ideas about acting impact those of Stanislavski, Grotowski and Brecht?
What were the foundational ideas of Joan Littlewood?
All of these questions and many, many more are answered in this book, which offers a refreshingly accessible survey of the major acting teachers from the early 1700s up to the present day.
It looks at what their major influences were, where their ideas came from and their legacy.
Structured by practitioner and arranged in chronological order, this much-needed book brings together the foundational acting theories that have shaped the arts scene for centuries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1 Skinning the Cat
- 2 The Realm of Realism
- 3 David Garrick 1717–1779
- 4 Denis Diderot 1713–1784
- 5 From Russia with Love
- 6 Eleonora Duse 1858–1924
- 7 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko 1858–1943
- 8 Adolphe Appia 1862–1928
- 9 Konstantin Stanislavski 1863–1938
- 10 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze 1865–1950
- 11 Frederick Matthias Alexander 1869–1955
- 12 Gordon Craig 1872–1966
- 13 Vsevolod Meyerhold 1874–1940
- 14 Maria Ouspenskaya 1876–1949
- 15 Jacques Copeau 1879–1949
- 16 Rudolf Laban 1879–1958
- 17 Yevgeny Vakhtangov 1883–1922
- 18 Nikolai Demidov 1884–1953
- 19 Charles Dullin 1885–1949
- 20 Richard Boleslavsky 1889–1937 The American Lab Theatre 1923–1933
- 21 Michael Chekhov 1891–1955
- 22 Erwin Piscator 1893–1966
- 23 Antonin Artaud 1896–1948
- 24 Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956
- 25 Sergei Eisenstein 1898–1948
- 26 Lee Strasberg 1901–1982
- 27 Harold Clurman 1901–1980
- 28 Stella Adler 1901–1992
- 29 Moshe Feldenkrais 1904–1984
- 30 Sanford Meisner 1905–1997
- 31 Viola Spolin 1906–1994
- 32 Robert Lewis 1909–1997
- 33 Elia Kazan 1909–2003
- 34 Joan Littlewood 1914–2002
- 35 Uta Hagen 1919–2004
- 36 Jacques Lecoq 1921–1999
- 37 Sidney Lumet 1924–2011
- 38 Peter Brook 1925–2022
- 39 Julian Beck 1925–1985
- 40 Judith Malina 1926–2015
- 41 Augusto Boal 1931–2009
- 42 Susana Bloch 1931–(Alba-emoting™)
- 43 Jerzy Grotowski 1933–1999
- 44 Sydney Pollack 1934–2008
- 45 Charles Marowitz 1934–2014
- 46 Joseph Chaikin 1935–2003 (The Open Theater)
- 47 Eugenio Barba 1936–
- 48 Tadashi Suzuki 1939–
- 49 Anne Bogart 1951–
- 50 David Mamet 1947–
- 51 Simon McBurney 1957– (Théâtre de Complicité)
- 52 The Neighborhood Playhouse 1915–1927, 1928–
- 53 The Group Theater 1931–1941
- 54 The Actors Studio 1947–
- 55 Dramatic Realism in Cinema
- 56 Arrival of the Talkies 1927
- 57 Socialist Realism USSR 1934–1991
- 58 Poetic Realism France 1930–1939
- 59 Italian Neo-RealismItaly 1943–1952
- 60 Satyajit Ray 1921–1992
- 61 Kitchen Sink Drama (British Social Realism) 1956–1970
- 62 John Cassavetes 1929–2008
- 63 Ken Loach 1936–
- 64 John Sayles 1950–
- 65 Sean Baker 1971–
- 66 Neo Neo-Realism
- 67 Magic Realism
- 68 Errors and Omissions