Acting Narrative Speeches: The Actor as StorytellerMeriwether Pub., 2002 - 445 Seiten Narrative speeches, both classical and contemporary, are used to reveal how an actor can discover the inherent energy, the essence and the subtextual colours of every word and sentences of a dramatic speech. This book clearly demonstrates that any memorable performance needs far more than acting technique alone. In eighteen chapters actor/director/teacher McDonough defines in depth how an actor can find the often overlooked subtleties that create characters with dimension and moments of heightened reality. |
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... Things Past When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past , I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought , And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste . [ ... ] Then can I grieve at grievances ...
... Things Past When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past , I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought , And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste . [ ... ] Then can I grieve at grievances ...
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... things out . To go out and have a business lunch and talk things over . In the rush of Weston's rhetoric , one might slide by this text and not catch the scene it implies . It is not that one must play out the fantasized business lunch ...
... things out . To go out and have a business lunch and talk things over . In the rush of Weston's rhetoric , one might slide by this text and not catch the scene it implies . It is not that one must play out the fantasized business lunch ...
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... things . If they lose a battle they sleep as soundly as ever . They simply say the snow or the wind was against them ; and they just cross all the dead men off their role . But I should always remember I had killed them . Please have ...
... things . If they lose a battle they sleep as soundly as ever . They simply say the snow or the wind was against them ; and they just cross all the dead men off their role . But I should always remember I had killed them . Please have ...
Inhalt
Preface | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 30 |
Chapter 4 | 61 |
Urheberrecht | |
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