The Actor at WorkThe Actor at Work presents experiential exercises designed to help students develop a complete understanding of the physical, vocal, analytical, and ethical aspects of acting. For more than thirty years, Robert Benedetti's highly acclaimed The Actor at Work has offered students a thorough focus on the underlying principles of the acting process. |
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Page 197
... Blocking in Life Spend a few days watching the " blocking " of everyday life . Notice how attitude , relationship , and action are expressed in the way people place themselves in a room and in relationship to each other . Record your ...
... Blocking in Life Spend a few days watching the " blocking " of everyday life . Notice how attitude , relationship , and action are expressed in the way people place themselves in a room and in relationship to each other . Record your ...
Page 198
... blocking emerges and is incorporated as a natural part of your total action . By concentrating on what your character is doing , you naturally make the correct movements to the correct locations without thinking . JUSTIFYING THE BLOCKING ...
... blocking emerges and is incorporated as a natural part of your total action . By concentrating on what your character is doing , you naturally make the correct movements to the correct locations without thinking . JUSTIFYING THE BLOCKING ...
Page 201
... blocking . " Good stage blocking must reflect the nature of the characters , the character relationships , and most of all the underlying action of the scene . Most direc- tors prefer the actors to provide the basic movement impulses ...
... blocking . " Good stage blocking must reflect the nature of the characters , the character relationships , and most of all the underlying action of the scene . Most direc- tors prefer the actors to provide the basic movement impulses ...
Contents
The Creative State | 9 |
Centering and Moving | 17 |
Gesture | 29 |
Copyright | |
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A. R. Gurney acting actor alignment Amanda Arthur Miller attitude audience audition automatic awareness beat change become begin behavior blocking body breath camera CARLA central conflict character's action choice commitment Constantin Stanislavski create crisis David Mamet develop DIANE director dramatic function Dramatists Play Service dual consciousness Edward Albee everyday example Exercise experience explore express external action feel fellow actors film and television focus gestures Glass Menagerie Howard important impulse inner language Laura Lesson live LUDLOW main event meaning move movement natural Neil Simon partner pattern performance person physical playwright produce psychological qualities rehearsal process relationship Renee Taylor rhythm role Salesman Sam Shepard Samuel French score sense sequence shape situation skills someone sound speak specific stage Stanislavski called stimulus story subtext superobjective Tennessee Williams Theatre Arts Books things thought through-line tion traits voice Willy Loman Willy's words writer York