Milestones in Actor Training

Paul Allain, Frank Camilleri (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-63238-4 (ISBN)

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Milestones in Actor Training focuses on key developments across time in how actors prepare for performance. This volume concentrates mainly on conceptions of acting as emergent or as reformulated in the West, with the majority coming from the late nineteenth century onwards.

Milestones in Actor Training focuses on key developments across time in how actors prepare for performance.

Designed for weekly use on actor training and acting courses, the ten chosen milestones cover a wide range, culturally, historically, and geographically; from psychological realist acting in conventional plot-driven drama, through Commedia dell’Arte to the broader church of physical acting that overlaps with devising, mime, circus, contemporary dance, and other body-based genres, including Japanese Nō theatre. The book’s principal concern is the theatre actor in text-based drama, sonic, or movement structures, though the final milestone encompasses acting for film and new media. This volume concentrates mainly on conceptions of acting as emergent or as reformulated in the West, with the majority coming from the late nineteenth century onwards.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

Paul Allain is Professor of Theatre and Performance at University of Kent, UK Frank Camilleri is Professor of Theatre Studies at University of Malta, Malta

List of Contributors

Introduction
Paul Allain and Frank Camilleri

1 Zeami, Nō, and Cross-cultural Training Histories
Ashley Thorpe

2 Commedia dell’Arte: Training in the Troupe
Olly Crick

3 Stanislavsky and the Rock
Bella Merlin

4 French Foundations of Physicality
Ellie Nixon

5 Brecht and the ‘Street Scene’
David Barnett

6 Grotowski and After: Embracing the Physical
Dominika Laster

7 Voice Training: The Wolfsohn–Hart Approach
Patrick Campbell and Margaret Pikes

8 Women in/and Actor Training
Lisa Peck

9 Intercultural Training: Barba and Bogart
Stephen Atkins

10 Technology and the Emergence of Performance Capture
Boyd Branch

Conclusion
Paul Allain and Frank Camilleri

MAT Timeline

Glossary of Key Terms

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Milestones
Zusatzinfo	12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	650 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-032-63238-0 / 1032632380
ISBN-13	978-1-032-63238-4 / 9781032632384
Zustand	Neuware