Author(s): Richard Brestoff
Format: Original PDF
Language: English
Publisher: 1
Publication: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc (August 1, 2010)
n FeaturesThe Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, Volume 2 features the innovative ideas and theories of: Andre AntoineJacques CopeauMichel Saint-DenisElia KazanUta HagenDavid MametAnne BogartKeith JohnstoneIn this follow-up to his first volume that has become an essential classroom text, Brestoff examines all new teachers and exposes the origin of today’s ideas and exercises that acting students are practicing. What is the rationale behind the lesson? Why is it useful? Whether they can be called revolutionary or evolutionary, the conflicting theories of these teachers result from outrage and disgust. Andre Antoine, Jacques Copeau and Michel Saint-Denis represent a virtually unacknowledged yet powerful French influence on acting and actor training in the United States and abroad.American Realist teachers known asn
