Michael Chekhov's acting technique : a practitioner's guide /

Michael Chekhov's acting technique : a practitioner's guide /

Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Providing a complete overview of the whole method, Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique includes illuminating...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rushe, Sinéad (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2019.
Series:Performance books.
Subjects:
Chekhov, Michael, > 1891-1955.
Acting.
Table of Contents:
  • The ideal centre
  • The four brothers: feeling of ease
  • Receiving
  • The four brothers: feeling of form
  • The four brothers: feeling of beauty
  • The four brothers: feeling of entirety
  • Radiating
  • Expansion and contraction
  • Qualities of movement: moulding, floating, flying, radiating
  • Further qualities of movement: staccato/legato, curved/straight
  • Directions in space
  • Archetypal gesture
  • The three sisters: rising, falling, balancing
  • Image and imagination
  • Improvisation
  • Imaginary body
  • Imaginary centre
  • Stick/ball/veil
  • Archetypes
  • Psychological gesture
  • Subjective atmosphere
  • Objective atmosphere
  • Extras: ghost exercise, character biography
  • Conclusion: theatre of the future.