Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!

Playing the Bard for Beginners

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Herb Parker, East Tennessee State University) Parker, Herb (Associate Professor, the Division of Theatre and Dance, Department of Communication and Performance

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Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think of the plays as happening out of outrageous situations, and remember just how non-realistic and presentational Shakespeare's plays were meant to be performed. The plays are driven by language and the spoken word, and the themes and plots are absolutely out of the ordinary and fantastic - the very definition of outrageous. With exercises, improvisations, and coaching points, Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous! helps actors use the words Shakespeare wrote as a tool to perform him, and to create exciting and moving performances.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-06-23
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt208 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415790444

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Herb Parker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Performance, Theatre and Dance, with East Tennessee State University. Directing credits at ETSU include Othello, Race, The Trojan Women, Six Characters in Search of an Author (KCACTF "Excellence in Directing" Meritorious Achievement Award), Caesar 2012 (his adaptation of Julius Caesar), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (KCACTF "Excellence in Directing" Meritorious Achievement Award) and Little Shop of Horrors (also a KCACTF "Excellence in Directing" Meritorious Achievement Award recipient). Professor Parker is a long-time member of the Actors Equity Association. He is the author of A Monologue is an Outrageous Situation! How to Survive the 60-Second Audition, published by Focal Press in 2016.

TABLE OF CONTENTSPROLOGUE: WHAT YOU MOST AFFECTLet the Earth O’erflowSo What Do I Mean, Really, by ‘Outrageous’?And What Do I Mean ‘Caused by Love’?How ‘Outrageous’ Applies to Playing ShakespeareTwo SuggestionsACT 1: SHAKSPER YOUR BFFWho He was, What he Did and What that Means for Us ActorsShakespeare’s TheatreThe Elizabethan StageShakespeare’s AudienceThe Actor’s TaskAll Women’s Roles Played by BoysScrolls, No Scripts! Shaksper’s "Outrageous" PlaysSummary: What This Means for Your ActingACT 2: HOLDING UP MIRRORSShakespeare as a Cold ReadLessons IntroductionWarmupLesson 1: DoingExercise 1: HowlExercise 2: SingExercise 3: Don’t Think About ItExercise 4: Hop, Kneel Crawl and Hug!Exercise 5: Wrestle, Kick, Speak!Exercise 6: You Are Being ChasedExercise 7: Every Line is a New Discovery Exercise 8: Become the Words: The Queen Mab SpeechVariation: Let the Class Choose What You BecomeLesson 2: VerseExercise 9: Write it in ProseExercise 10: Tear the Words!Exercise 11: Hang Your VerseExercise 12: Verb to VerbLesson 3: SoundExercise 13: GobbledygookExercise 14: Duh, Hell-o, F—K!Lesson 4: EmotionExercise 15: In-Motion, Not E-MotionExercise 16: My Cat is DeadExercise 17: The Last Line 6 TimesExercise 18: Grow From the Ground UpExercise 19: Roll on the FloorExercise 20: Dueling ShakespeareSummaryACT 3: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS!Thou and YouThe Poetry That Doesn’t RhymeThe Joys of Iambic PentameterShared LinesA Feminine EndingMore Tools from Shakespeare’s ArsenalScansion in ActionRhymed Verse and Couplets: A Poet and Do Know ItSonnetsExercise 21: Write a SonnetProse: How We TalkDag-nabbit! Shakespeare’s Made-Up WordsSummary ACT 4: DIVERS SCHEDULES: A FEW ITEMS PICKED UP WATCHING ACTORS DO SHAKESPEAREItem 1: There is No Subtext in ShakespeareItem 2: There is Never a ‘Fourth Wall’Item 3: Size is About More than Being Big and Loud Item 4: Play What the Scene is DOING—Not Just What the Words MeanItem 5: Antithesis is Fighting for an Answer by Comparing OppositesExercise 22: Play the AntithesisItem 6: Don’t Report, Make a Discovery!Item 7: Leave Your Hands ALONEItem 8: Speak a Soliloquy as if Your Life Depended upon it—Because it DoesItem 9: Pretty Speeches are About Blood and GutsItem 10: Paint the Picture!Exercise 23: A Pig in Slop—with the WordsItem 11: Shakespeare is Too Big for FilmItem 12: All Shakespearean Characters are Philosophers, and PoetsPOSTSCRIPT:"A very ribbon in the cap of youth."GLOSSARY—A Listing of Common Shakespeare TerminologyPRACTICE SPEECHES for Men and WomenBIBLIOGRAPHY AND RECOMMENDED READING