An Actor Performs - Tapa blanda

Part I: The Tools. 1. Autodrama. 2. Reading the Text (Objectively). 3. Language: The Music of the Play. 4. Reading the Text (Subjectively). Part II: The Process. 5. The Imaginative Process. 6. The Imaginative Process (II). Part III: The Characterization. 7. Characterization (I). 8. Characterization (II). 9. Putting It Together (I). 10. Putting It Together (II). Part IV: Extending Your Range. 11. Comedy. 12. One-Person Shows, Cabaret, Performance Art. Part V: Performing. 13. Interviews with Professional Actors.

Whether you are a beginning, intermediate, or advanced students of acting, AN ACTOR PERFORMS will help you use your experience and imagination to approach performance! You'll explore problems common to all actors: understanding the text, finding it a viable interpretation, dealing with the language of the play, and using one's body and mind and imagination to create a fully realized performance.