ABSTRACT

HOW DO ACTORS FUSE THOUGHT, EMOTION and ACTION WITHIN THEIR CREATIVE PROCESS?

Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop. RADA’s Brigid Panet has distilled 50 years of acting, directing and actor training into a unique recipe which brilliantly combines the teachings of Stanislavski and Laban into an invaluable practical resource.

These exercises are built around the need for simple, achievable techniques that can be applied by actors, teachers and directors to answer the myriad requirements of actor training. The goal is to produce a continuous level of achievement, addressing:

    • How to rehearse
    • How to work with a text
    • How to audition for drama school
    • How to access the truth of feelings and actions

Essential Acting will be a must-have purchase for anyone looking for a comprehensive study guide to the necessary work of the actor.

part |2 pages

Part One Acting exercises

chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|11 pages

Making a good start

chapter 3|12 pages

Experiencing the Three Essentials

chapter 4|4 pages

The Magic ‘If’

chapter 5|10 pages

Exercises in immediate response 32

part |2 pages

Part Two Acting is behaving

chapter 7|22 pages

Status

chapter 8|7 pages

Eye-gaze

chapter 9|7 pages

Confidence, poise and balance

part |2 pages

Part Three The rehearsal process

chapter 10|14 pages

Meeting the play

chapter 11|25 pages

Bringing the text to life

chapter 12|11 pages

The actor’s work on a character

part |2 pages

Part Four Tips and techniques

chapter 13|7 pages

Unstrung pearls

chapter 14|4 pages

Breath

chapter 15|9 pages

Playing the scene

part |2 pages

Part Five An introduction to playing Shakespeare

chapter 16|15 pages

Shakespeare’s language

chapter 17|11 pages

Handling Shakespeare’s language

part |2 pages

Part Six Workshops in Laban movement for actors

chapter 18|3 pages

The four elements

chapter 19|7 pages

Flow 200

chapter 20|14 pages

Space

chapter 21|13 pages

Time

chapter 22|7 pages

Force

chapter 23|14 pages

The Eight Laban Effort Actions

chapter |1 pages

Postscript