Acting: Foundation Issues Bk. 1 - Hardcover

Cohen, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874846692 ISBN 13: 9780874846690

Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S., 1984

Synopsis

This text contains 28 lessons on acting based on experiential exercises. The text covers basic skills such as talking, listening, tactical interplay, physicalizing, building scenes and making good choices.

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From the Publisher:

New Lessons: The author has reorganized the beginning of the text by adding two new lessons (bringing the total to 28) with several new warmup exercises and his signature Pledge of Allegiance exercise.
Advice from Professionals: Inspiring, sage bits of counsel from distinguished professional actors and directors appear in highlighted sections of the text, proving that veteran professionals wrestle with the same questions that beginners do.
Exercises: Among the many new activities in the text are new movement exercises in Lesson 18, a section on eye contact in Lesson 7, a pointing exercise in Lesson 19, and an inflections exercise in Lesson 22.
The Cohen Approach: Each lesson is a self-contained exploration of one acting concept or skill, allowing students to concentrate on one specific area of acting at a time, and creating an assured sequencing for instructors.
Learn by Doing: Students are up on their feet and acting immediately. More than 100 exercises keep students acting rather than reading.
Glossary: This resource introduces the beginning student to unfamiliar words likely to come up in acting classes and helps demystify acting terminology.

About the Author:

ROBERT COHEN was the founding chair Drama at the University of California at Irvine, where he continues to serve as the department's Claire Trevor Professor of Drama. He has also been a resident acting teacher at the Actors Center in New York, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the Korean National Arts University, and the national theatre academies of Hungary, Finland, and Estonia. He is an accomplished stage director, scholar, playwright, drama critic, and teacher. A director by training (Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale Drama School), Cohen has staged thirteen professional productions at the Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, plus well over a hundred productions at Stages Theatre Center (Hollywood), Virginia Museum Theatre (Richmond), Theatre 40 (Beverly Hills), Image Theatre (Boston), Summer Repertory Theatre (Santa Rosa), the Medieval Drama Project (Irvine), the Manhattan Theatre Source, various universities, and several operas, videos and films. In addition to Theatre and Theatre: Brief Edition, he is also the author of many theatre books, including Acting One, Advanced Acting, Acting in Shakespeare, Acting Professionally, Acting Power, More Power to You, Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny, Creative Play Direction, and two dramatic anthologies. His essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Forum, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, Theater der Zeit, Essays in Theatre, On Stage Studies, The Drama Review, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Slavic and East European Performance, Experiment and Innovation, and Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Cohen's play, The Prince, published by Dramatic Publishing Company, has been professionally produced in Long Beach, Pittsburgh, Budapest, and in staged readings in New York and Los Angeles; his dramatic translations (The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Misanthrope, Clizia, Tibi's Law) and opera translations (The Magic Flute, Carmen) have been both produced and published widely. For the past twenty years, Cohen has been the Southern California drama critic for Plays International, reviewing over two hundred plays. In 1999, he received the national Career Achievement award from ATHE - the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0874846692
• ISBN 13: 9780874846690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204