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Narrated by TV director and acting teacher Richard Sarell, this video interweaves theory and practice to introduce students to the major elements of the acting and rehearsal techniques. Includes interviews with a diverse group of acting students and excerpts from their performances.

Discusses acting techniques concerning the wearing of costumes, bodily movement, voice, speech and the use of language, and tempo and rhythm.

"Actor training is arguably the most unique phenomenon of twentieth-century theatre making. Here, for the first time, the theories, training exercises, and productions of fourteen of the century's key theatre practitioners are analysed in a single volume." "Each chapter provides a unique account of specific training exercises and an analysis of their relationship to the practitioners' theoretical and aesthetic concerns. The collection examines the...

A group of actors demonstrate a series of voice and body exercises that unite a series of moving, breathing and sounding actions in an integrated full-bodied acting workout. These smart exercises do more than simply build essential skills in alignment, movement, respiration, resonance and range, but simultaneously prepare the actor for the expression of the body's richest and most powerful thoughts and feelings. The goal is the development of a flexible...

The study of acting should begin with physical action-a specialized, structured, flexible and adaptable physical action that is enlisted in the direct service of the expression of thought and feeling. I call this integrated physical action an expressive action.-Michael Lugering. A group of actors work through a series of carefully structured exercises and improvisations that unlock the physical, raw materials that make human expression possible. Whether...

This program provides strategies and ideas for creating comedy for devised and scripted performances. Using interviews, workshops and performance footage from leading international comedy practitioners, this resource will guide students through the entire process, from the initial stages of researching, exploring and testing ideas through to rehearsal and final performance. Specific comedy generating strategies, like games and play, rhythm, timing...

This program presents a demonstration of acting exercises and a performance by members of the Open Theater of an excerpt from their new (1975) production, Fable. It also features an interview with director Andre Gregory about preparatory training at his Manhattan Project theater group and footage of voice coach Kristin Linklater working with students.

This program presents an interview with Lee Strasberg and performance segments from a class of The Actors Studio at the Lee Strasberg Acting Institute. Strasberg teaches a class at Actors Studio, a lesson on walking, and analyzes two students rehearsing a scene from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.