Milestones in Actor Training

Milestones in Actor Training focuses on key developments across time in how actors prepare for performance.

Designed for weekly use on actor training and acting courses, the ten chosen milestones cover a wide range, culturally, historically, and geographically; from psychological realist acting in conventional plot-driven drama, through Commedia dell’Arte to the broader church of physical acting that overlaps with devising, mime, circus, contemporary dance, and other body-based genres, including Japanese Nō theatre. The book’s principal concern is the theatre actor in text-based drama, sonic, or movement structures, though the final milestone encompasses acting for film and new media. This volume concentrates mainly on conceptions of acting as emergent or as reformulated in the West, with the majority coming from the late nineteenth century onwards.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

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Milestones in Actor Training

Milestones in Actor Training focuses on key developments across time in how actors prepare for performance.

Designed for weekly use on actor training and acting courses, the ten chosen milestones cover a wide range, culturally, historically, and geographically; from psychological realist acting in conventional plot-driven drama, through Commedia dell’Arte to the broader church of physical acting that overlaps with devising, mime, circus, contemporary dance, and other body-based genres, including Japanese Nō theatre. The book’s principal concern is the theatre actor in text-based drama, sonic, or movement structures, though the final milestone encompasses acting for film and new media. This volume concentrates mainly on conceptions of acting as emergent or as reformulated in the West, with the majority coming from the late nineteenth century onwards.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

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Milestones in Actor Training

Milestones in Actor Training

Milestones in Actor Training

Milestones in Actor Training

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Milestones in Actor Training focuses on key developments across time in how actors prepare for performance.

Designed for weekly use on actor training and acting courses, the ten chosen milestones cover a wide range, culturally, historically, and geographically; from psychological realist acting in conventional plot-driven drama, through Commedia dell’Arte to the broader church of physical acting that overlaps with devising, mime, circus, contemporary dance, and other body-based genres, including Japanese Nō theatre. The book’s principal concern is the theatre actor in text-based drama, sonic, or movement structures, though the final milestone encompasses acting for film and new media. This volume concentrates mainly on conceptions of acting as emergent or as reformulated in the West, with the majority coming from the late nineteenth century onwards.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032632353
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/12/2025
Series: Milestones
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Allain is Professor of Theatre and Performance at University of Kent, UK

Frank Camilleri is Professor of Theatre Studies at University of Malta, Malta

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction
Paul Allain and Frank Camilleri

1 Zeami, Nō, and Cross-cultural Training Histories
Ashley Thorpe

2 Commedia dell’Arte: Training in the Troupe
Olly Crick

3 Stanislavsky and the Rock
Bella Merlin

4 French Foundations of Physicality
Ellie Nixon

5 Brecht and the ‘Street Scene’
David Barnett

6 Grotowski and After: Embracing the Physical
Dominika Laster

7 Voice Training: The Wolfsohn–Hart Approach
Patrick Campbell and Margaret Pikes

8 Women in/and Actor Training
Lisa Peck

9 Intercultural Training: Barba and Bogart
Stephen Atkins

10 Technology and the Emergence of Performance Capture
Boyd Branch

Conclusion
Paul Allain and Frank Camilleri

MAT Timeline

Glossary of Key Terms

Index

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