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For over twenty years, Robert Benedetti's highly acclaimed The Actor at Work has offered students a thorough focus on the underlying principles of the acting process. Now in its eighth edition, The Actor at Work continues to present an experiential sequence of exercises designed to help actors develop a complete understanding of the physical, vocal, analytical, and ethical aspects of the actor's art. For anyone interested in acting.
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Explores the fundamentals and all aspects of acting, with an emphasis on preparation. Describes the process of developing and assuming a character, and all stages of rehearsal from the initial audition to the adjustments made after the first performance. The latest edition attempts a more direct, simpler text, and spends more time addressing the needs of the camera. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780205261390
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/28/1996
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 7
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.24 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Exercises
Foreword
Preface
1 The Actor in You 1
2 The Creative State 9
3 Centering and Moving 17
4 Body Gesture 29
5 Voice and Speech 39
6 The Performance Space 47
7 Working with Others 57
8 Action 69
9 Action and the Acting Process 77
10 Needs, Actions, and Objectives 85
11 Playable Actions 91
12 The Flow of Dramatic Action 101
13 Beats and Scenes 109
14 Through-Line and Superobjective 119
15 The Function and Elements of Character 127
16 The Character's Mind 139
17 The Character's Language 153
18 The Character's Body 165
19 The Character's Emotion 177
20 The Rehearsal Process I: Finding the Content 189
21 The Rehearsal Process II: Developing the Form 199
22 The Rehearsal Process III: Preparing to Open 207
23 The Actor at Work 215
Afterword: Transformation 227
Appendix A Sample Scenes 229
Appendix B An Action Checklist 241
Bibliography 243
Notes 247
Index 253
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