What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons From The Eighteenth Century Av James Harriman-Smith

What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons From The Eighteenth Century Av James Harriman-Smith

The stage of the 1700s established a star culture with the emergence of acting celebrities such as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber and Sarah Siddons. It placed Shakespeare at the heart of the classical repertoire and offered unprecedented opportunities to female actors. This book demonstrates how an understanding of the practi......
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The stage of the 1700s established a star culture with the emergence of acting celebrities such as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber and Sarah Siddons. It placed Shakespeare at the heart of the classical repertoire and offered unprecedented opportunities to female actors. This book demonstrates how an understanding of the practice and theories circulating at the time can generate new ways of studying and performing plays of all kinds today. Offering theatre professionals a model for active engagement with stage history, this book provides stage historians with an approach to past performance practice that is centred on process and preparation rather than product. Initially, this book vividly introduces readers to the 18th century stage and the ideas that governed it through a study of the vast amount of writing about acting that appeared at the time, including letters, diaries, treatises and anthologies. The author then presents a series of exercises developed in collaboration with profes
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The stage of the 1700s established a star culture with the emergence of acting celebrities such as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber and Sarah Siddons. It placed Shakespeare at the heart of the classical repertoire and offered unprecedented opportunities to female actors. This book demonstrates how an understanding of the practice and theories circulating at the time can generate new ways of studying and performing plays of all kinds today. Offering theatre professionals a model for active engagement with stage history, this book provides stage historians with an approach to past performance practice that is centred on process and preparation rather than product. Initially, this book vividly introduces readers to the 18th century stage and the ideas that governed it through a study of the vast amount of writing about acting that appeared at the time, including letters, diaries, treatises and anthologies. The author then presents a series of exercises developed in collaboration with professional actors and directors informed by this literature. These exercises can be employed singly or combined into an iterative rehearsal process; they are also open to further adaptation and analysis as part of a work that treats theatre writers of the past as potential collaborators for those interested in theatre today.A truly unique offering, What would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century offers a fascinating deep-dive into this important time in theatre history to illuminate practices and processes today.

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Dykk inn i teaterhistorien med "What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons From The Eighteenth Century Av James Harriman-Smith". Dette unike verket gir deg en sjanse til å forstå de dype teoriene og praksisene som preget 1700-tallets teater. Med fokus på store skuespillere som David Garrick og Sarah Siddons, viser boken hvordan deres lærdommer fortsatt kan inspirere dagens teaterkunstnere.

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  • Historisk innsikt: Boken gir en grundig innføring i 18. århundres teaterkultur og de tankene som lå bak.
  • Praktiske øvelser: Samarbeid med profesjonelle teateraktører har resultert i en rekke øvelser som kan brukes individuelt eller i grupper.
  • For teaterprofesjonelle og entusiaster: Enten du er skuespiller, regissør eller bare en teaterelsker, vil denne boken gi deg nye perspektiver.

En ny tilnærming til teater

Harriman-Smith tilbyr ikke bare en retrospektiv analys av fortiden, men gir også modeller for aktiv deltakelse med teaterhistorien. Dette betyr at du kan utforske gamle tekster ikke bare som leser, men også som en aktiv medskaper i nye forestillinger.

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