Acting PowerDesigned for courses in beginning or intermediate acting, this text is a contemporary, personal, and provocative resource for students who strive to become great—not merely good—performers. |
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acter ACTING POWER action actor actor playing actor-characters aligned athlete audi audience-chorus become behavior Brecht Brechtian char character's private audience character's situation chorus Claudius cognitive dissonance communication concentration consciously Constantin Stanislavski context costume course create Creon cybernetic deterministic develop dialect director dramatic Dustin Hoffman egocentricity emotion ence Eric Berne example experience fantasies feedback feel four-minute mile Glass Menagerie goal Hamlet human Hume Cronyn ideal futures imaginary imagine improvisation induce intentions interaction Jack Lemmon living look masks means mind obstacles onstage ourselves paranoid person Peter Brook physical plants play's PLAYING CHARACTER PLAYING STYLE PLAYING THE PERFORMANCE PLAYING THE SITUATION playwright preconditions present psychological Ramsden rehearsal relacom victories relationship relish scene script simply situational victories skier slalom soliloquy speak specific speech spontaneous stage Stanislavski stylized theatre theatrical things tion unconscious understanding Walter Felsenstein William Redfield words Woyzeck