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Shakespeare and Lecoq A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

Woodall, Ed Rokison-Woodall, Abigail
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350244085
Publisert
2024-06-13
Utgiver
Vendor
The Arden Shakespeare
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Woodall, Ed
Rokison-Woodall, Abigail

Om bidragsyterne

Abigail Rokison-Woodall is Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She began her career as a professional actor, training at LAMDA. Her first monograph, Shakespearean Verse Speaking won the Shakespeare’s Globe first book award. She has authored a number of journal articles and chapters on Shakespeare and theatre, as well as Shakespeare for Young People, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner and As You Like It: Language and Writing. Ed Woodall is an acting coach and movement director. He trained with Jacques Lecoq at the École Jacques Lecoq between 1989-91 and has worked in physical theatre with Complicité, Improbable and Kneehigh as well as acting in a number of films and RSC productions of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and Lecoq A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

Woodall, Ed Rokison-Woodall, Abigail
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Woodall, Ed Rokison-Woodall, Abigail
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Jacques Lecoq to the process of rehearsing or workshopping the Shakespeare text. Written by theatre practitioner Ed Woodall, who trained with Lecoq himself, and Shakespeare academic Abigail Rokison-Woodall, this guide begins with warm-ups and ensemble-building, and moves through explorations of the story, the world of the play, the text, character emotion, thought and physicality and staging. Lecoq’s method often relies on ‘play’, and play is often seen as trivial or inconsequential. This book argues that the more playful you are, the more playfully you investigate your speech or scene and the more physically motivated that playfulness is, the more vital and lifelike your acting of Shakespeare will be.
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Chapter 1. Warm-Ups Chapter 2. Building an Ensemble Chapter 3. Exploring the Story Chapter 4. Exploring the World of Play Chapter 5. Exploring the World of Text Chapter 6. Character 1 - Exploring Character, Emotion and Thought Chapter 7. Character 2 - Exploring Character Physicality Chapter 8. Character 3 - Exploring Character Types Chapter 9. Laughter and Play Chapter 10. Staging the Plays Index
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Provides insights into how the work of Jacques Lecoq can be applied to the rehearsal process for a Shakespeare play or scene-study.
A clear, comprehensive account of the key elements of Lecoq’s training and ways in which these can be applied to the performance of Shakespeare
The Arden Performance Companions offer practice-focussed introductions to different aspects of staging Shakespeare’s plays: whether accounts of how Shakespearean drama may respond to particular systems of rehearsal and preparation, guides to how today’s actors can understand and use different facets of Shakespeare’s verbal style, or explorations of how particular modern practitioners have used Shakespeare’s scripts as starting points for their own embodied thinking about the social and aesthetic possibilities of popular theatre. The premise of this series is that the interpretation of Shakespeare is not confined to the literary analysis of his scripts, but also includes their rehearsal and performance. With this in mind, the Arden list of editions of Shakespeare expanded in 2017 to include not only heavily-annotated scholarly texts of each play, designed primarily for use in colleges and universities, but a new series, the Arden Performance Editions of Shakespeare, designed primarily for use in rehearsal rooms and at drama schools. Just as academic editions of Shakespeare may be supplemented by books introducing students to different modes of academic criticism, so these Arden Performance Companions seek to supplement the Arden Performance Editions, offering a rich variety of practical guidance on how Shakespeare’s plays can be brought to life in contemporary performance.
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This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Jacques Lecoq to the process of rehearsing or workshopping the Shakespeare text. Written by theatre practitioner Ed Woodall, who trained with Lecoq himself, and Shakespeare academic Abigail Rokison-Woodall, this guide begins with warm-ups and ensemble-building, and moves through explorations of the story, the world of the play, the text, character emotion, thought and physicality and staging. Lecoq’s method often relies on ‘play’, and play is often seen as trivial or inconsequential. This book argues that the more playful you are, the more playfully you investigate your speech or scene and the more physically motivated that playfulness is, the more vital and lifelike your acting of Shakespeare will be.
Les mer
Chapter 1. Warm-Ups Chapter 2. Building an Ensemble Chapter 3. Exploring the Story Chapter 4. Exploring the World of Play Chapter 5. Exploring the World of Text Chapter 6. Character 1 - Exploring Character, Emotion and Thought Chapter 7. Character 2 - Exploring Character Physicality Chapter 8. Character 3 - Exploring Character Types Chapter 9. Laughter and Play Chapter 10. Staging the Plays Index
Les mer
Provides insights into how the work of Jacques Lecoq can be applied to the rehearsal process for a Shakespeare play or scene-study.
A clear, comprehensive account of the key elements of Lecoq’s training and ways in which these can be applied to the performance of Shakespeare
The Arden Performance Companions offer practice-focussed introductions to different aspects of staging Shakespeare’s plays: whether accounts of how Shakespearean drama may respond to particular systems of rehearsal and preparation, guides to how today’s actors can understand and use different facets of Shakespeare’s verbal style, or explorations of how particular modern practitioners have used Shakespeare’s scripts as starting points for their own embodied thinking about the social and aesthetic possibilities of popular theatre. The premise of this series is that the interpretation of Shakespeare is not confined to the literary analysis of his scripts, but also includes their rehearsal and performance. With this in mind, the Arden list of editions of Shakespeare expanded in 2017 to include not only heavily-annotated scholarly texts of each play, designed primarily for use in colleges and universities, but a new series, the Arden Performance Editions of Shakespeare, designed primarily for use in rehearsal rooms and at drama schools. Just as academic editions of Shakespeare may be supplemented by books introducing students to different modes of academic criticism, so these Arden Performance Companions seek to supplement the Arden Performance Editions, offering a rich variety of practical guidance on how Shakespeare’s plays can be brought to life in contemporary performance.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350244085
Publisert
2024-06-13
Utgiver
Vendor
The Arden Shakespeare
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Woodall, Ed
Rokison-Woodall, Abigail

Om bidragsyterne

Abigail Rokison-Woodall is Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She began her career as a professional actor, training at LAMDA. Her first monograph, Shakespearean Verse Speaking won the Shakespeare’s Globe first book award. She has authored a number of journal articles and chapters on Shakespeare and theatre, as well as Shakespeare for Young People, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner and As You Like It: Language and Writing. Ed Woodall is an acting coach and movement director. He trained with Jacques Lecoq at the École Jacques Lecoq between 1989-91 and has worked in physical theatre with Complicité, Improbable and Kneehigh as well as acting in a number of films and RSC productions of Shakespeare.

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