Michel Saint-Denis

Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style and Other Writings

Herausgeber: Baldwin, Jane

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415450478
• ISBN-10: 0415450470
• Artikelnr.: 25684116

Autorenporträt

Michel Saint-Denis was one of the preeminent theatrical theorists of the 20th Century. Aside from his contributions to acting, directing, teaching and writing, he also founded the London Theatre Studio, the Old Vic Theatre School and New York's Juillard Drama School. Jane Baldwin is a theatre historian at the Boston Conservatory, and author of Michel Saint-Denis and the Shaping of the Modern Actor.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Who Was Michel Saint-Denis? Part 1: The Classical Theatre 1. The
Classical French Tradition: Contradictions and Contributions Part 2:
Classical Theatre and Modern Realism 2. Style and Reality 3. Style and
Stylization 4. Style in Acting, Directing, and Designing 5. Training for
the Theatre Part 3: Acting Guidelines. Exerpts from Training for the
Theatre 6. Guiding Principles: The Progression of the Training 7. The
Actor's Techniques: Physical and Vocal Expression 8. The Imaginative
Background 9. Silent Acting - Improvisation