Acting: Onstage and Off / Edition 7

by Robert Barton

Overview

Reader-friendly and practical, ACTING: ONSTAGE AND OFF demonstrates how to adapt onstage training toward offstage performance, and how to apply skills for theatre and film to lead a rich, full life outside the theatre. Humorous, conversational writing helps students learn all phases of actor training, including scene study, auditioning, and improvisation, as well as relaxation techniques for the mind, voice and body. Examples from life, rather than dramatic literature, ensure understanding. Students also learn strategies for connecting with other actors in a scene and in rehearsal. Enlightening and creative exercises help students practice altering their physical and emotional state to become a character while keeping those aspects of their selves that most serve the role being played.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781305077447
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert Barton is Professor Emeritus of Acting at the University of Oregon. He has directed more than half of Shakespeare s plays and performed in most of them, including playing the title role in a PBS production of HAMLET. A prolific author, Dr. Barton has published numerous scholarly articles on acting and nine books, including VOICE: ONSTAGE AND OFF (with Rocco Dal Vera), MOVEMENT: ONSTAGE AND OFF (with Barbara Seller Young), THEATRE IN YOUR LIFE and LIFE THEMES (both with Annie McGregor), ACTING REFRAMES: USING NLP TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS IN AND OUT OF THE THEATRE, and A VOICE FOR THE THEATRE. His STYLE FOR ACTORS received the Theatre Association s Best Book Award. In addition, he was editor and adaptor of the newly revised edition of the classic text THE CRAFT OF COMEDY. The American College Theatre Festival honored Dr. Barton as Outstanding Acting Coach. He received his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University.

Table of Contents

Preface. About the Author. 1. Acting Acknowledged. 2. Relaxed Readiness. 3. Individual Inventory. 4. Stanislavski's System. 5. Stanislavski Stretched. 6. Truth/Technique. 7. Scene Study. 8. Performance Process. 9. Acting Anticipated.

Editorial Reviews

A highly practical approach to acting: A rich depth and breadth of exercises for the students; ACTING ONSTAGE AND OFF gives students an excellent introduction to the Stanislavski system

I think it's the best text on the market.

ACTING ONSTAGE AND OFF provides a springboard in which 'course objectives meets in-class application.'"

From the Publisher

A textbook for beginning acting students, emphasizing the life- enhancing aspects of actor training over technical skills. It explains how offstage performance can be adapted for the theater, and vice versa. No dates are noted for previous editions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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