As you see I struggle with the structure of the book: between flowwing the the THR221 Intermediate Acting and the need for more advanced texts on Biomechanics. I know that I can introduce all new terminology in Acting II class.
You see on my BM webpages the links to VIRTUAL THEATRE; I advise directors to check the site, because Brecht and Meyerhold are VERY usefull for film, video and webcast. Actors should go back to Stanislavsky in order to understand how important the Method is for the closeups!
There are four parts (not two) in this book: Actor, Acting, showcases and the HOMEWORK. Five Parts, sorry: the last is the Apparatus (support pages).
The three and four (Theory in Action: Monologues & Scenes) are the most important. If you want to appreciate acting and theatre, you can skip it, but if you want to act -- you must do it, the homework. Try -- and you will notice that you have to go back to the two previous parts on theory of acting.
You must have you your actor's journal ready and take notes. If you do not have the journal, go, buy yourself a big notebook and come back.
Ready?
Do you have your scene or monologue selected?
No?
Go and get it! Put it in your journal -- you will be working on PRACTICAL tasks. (You might get it from my "Theatre w/Anatoly" site -- go to SHOWS directory, I have some from the plays I directed.
Where can I download the full text, Anatoly? Nowhere, not yet, kid!
There are pages I really have to work on. This is one of the special ones.
I am not sure that the four part structure (actor's text, chronotope, mono, scenes) is final. Too many things are left out. Well, I open bomechanics.vtheatre.net directory to experiment with the organization of the book.
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