Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh

by Mike Alfreds

Overview

Different Every Night is the culmination of a lifetime of work in the theater, the most complete rehearsal methodology in print since Stanislavsky. It offers a vital master class for actors and directors, full of sound practical advice and guidance, and is packed with techniques for bringing the text to life and keeping it alive, both in rehearsal and performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781854599674
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword   Pam Ferris     xi
A Practical Guide     xvii
Health and Safety Warnings     xxi
Introductions
Curriculum Vitae     3
The Primacy of the Actor     12
Permanent Training     27
Concepts
Process v. Results     37
Want! Do! Feel!     42
Want: Objectives     48
Scene Objectives     49
Through-Lines     56
Super-Objectives     58
Counter-Objectives     63
Do: Actions     64
Beats     78
Obstacles     84
The Hierarchy of Actions and Objectives     86
Feel: Emotion     91
Given Circumstances     104
Preparation
The Purpose of Preparation     111
Preparing the Text     112
Deconstructing the Text     120
Titling the Acts     121
Sections     124
Units     125
Actions     133
A Pyramid of Titles     139
Preparing the Rehearsals     141
Casting     150
The Work: Rehearsal, Production, Performance
Rehearsal: Some Basic Principles     157
The Text     163
Actioning     164
Text - No Text - Text     175
Feeding-In     178
Points of Concentration     183
Logic Text     196
Character
The Starting Point     203
The Character Lists     206
Character Development     224
Techniques Towards Characterisation     229
The Actor and the Role     241
The World of the Play
Discovering New Worlds     245
Starting Points     249
Self-Blocking     261
Practice: A Handful of Dust; Marriage     265
Bringing the Strands Together     279
Production     286
Performance     295
Unclogging the Work
Clearing the Decks for Action     303
Bad Behaviour     304
Actors and Directors     313
Actors' Fears     319
Directors' Fears     329
Rigour     335
Coda: Summing Up
Recapitulation     343
Glossary     347
Further Reading     359