UID:
almahu_9949386162002882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780429292231
,
0429292236
,
9781000047264
,
1000047261
,
9781000047271
,
100004727X
,
9781000047257
,
1000047253
Content:
"Shakespeare & Company is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What's his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company's aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material - including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries - and the Company's newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details:; Shakespeare & Company's founding and early history; Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre's principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight; and Actor/Audience Relationship; Vocational components of its Training intensives; Practical pedagogy of its Education programs; Insights into its unique approaches to Performance; Impact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training), Kevin G. Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director). Actors, directors, students, educators, scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies, inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over forty years"--
Note:
Foreword / Allyn Burrows -- Prologue: 'To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores' -- Visions and revisions : the company is formed / Bella Merlin -- Bricks and mortar, trellis and trees : an aesthetic is realized / Bella Merlin -- Talk #1 : function of the theatre / Tina Packer -- Evolution and influences of the month-long intensive / Bella Merlin -- Talk #2 : actor/audience relationship / Tina Packer -- Voice work & basics / Bella Merlin -- Text work & dropping in / Bella Merlin -- Body work & bringing it all together / Bella Merlin -- Practical pedagogy / Bella Merlin -- Shakespeare-in-the-schools / Bella Merlin -- Shakespeare on the campus / Bella Merlin -- Shakespeare-in-the-courts / Bella Merlin -- The art form of performance / Bella Merlin -- Talk #3 : theatre, therapy and theology / Tina Packer -- Cymbeline : a performance case study / Bella Merlin & Tina Packer -- Epilogue: 'On such a full sea are we now afloat'.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Merlin, Bella. Shakespeare & Company. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367086848
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429292231
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429292231