Jaq Bessell

Shakespeare in Action (eBook, ePUB)

30 Theatre Makers on their Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

- How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance?
- Where do directors begin?
- What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer or choreographer?
- How do the cast and creative team work together in rehearsals?

With Shakespeare in Action, Jaq Bessell presents thirty interviews with theatre practitioners from some of the larger producing theatres in the UK and the US, exploring the various processes which bring Shakespeare's plays to the stage. Actors, designers, directors and choreographers, including Eve Best, Bunny Christie, Gregory Doran and Lindsay Kemp, share their collective wisdom and experience, and reveal how training and practice informs productions of Shakespeare plays. These first-hand accounts provide students of Shakespeare in performance and practitioners with a critical toolkit with which to study the plays in performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474229753
• Artikelnr.: 54949807

Autorenporträt

Jaq Bessell is Head of MA Acting and Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Guildford School of Acting, UK. After gaining her PhD, she spent the six years working in the professional theatre, first at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and later as Head of Research at Shakespeare's Globe in London. Later, she taught acting at the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City before joining the faculty in the M.Litt/M.F.A. programme in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin College, in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center. She then became a lecturer and fellow at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Her work with actors is the source, form, and outlet for her ongoing research in Early Modern drama, particularly the plays of Shakespeare.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction THE INTERVIEWS The Cast Jade Anouka Ankur Bahl Eve Best Sandy Grierson John Harrell Alex Hassell Amer Hlehel Colin Hurley T.R. Knight Andrew Long Jonathan McGuinness Pippa Nixon Juliet Rylance Jonathan Slinger Emily Taafe Yolanda Vazquez The Creatives Mike Alfreds Tim Carroll Bunny Christie Geraldine Collinge Michael Corbidge Gregory Doran Polly Findlay Lindsay Kemp Ethan McSweeny Bruce O'Neill Tom Piper Renato Rocha Claire van Kampen Sian Williams CONCLUSIONS About the Author References Suggested Further Reading Index

Rezensionen

An engaging resource for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare performance, the politics of who can speak Shakespeare, how to speak Shakespeare, whom Shakespeare belongs to, and the alchemic transformation from words on a page, to actions on a stage. SKENÈ Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies