Acting Narrative Speeches: The Actor as StorytellerMeriwether Pub., 2002 - 445 pages Narrative speeches, both classical and contemporary, are used to reveal how an actor can discover the inherent energy, the essence and the subtextual colours of every word and sentences of a dramatic speech. This book clearly demonstrates that any memorable performance needs far more than acting technique alone. In eighteen chapters actor/director/teacher McDonough defines in depth how an actor can find the often overlooked subtleties that create characters with dimension and moments of heightened reality. |
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... important detail from the main idea . You can mark a bit of text that you want to subordinate with your own parenthesis . Framing - - The most essential , expressive moments in a speech those which are especially important to the story ...
... important detail from the main idea . You can mark a bit of text that you want to subordinate with your own parenthesis . Framing - - The most essential , expressive moments in a speech those which are especially important to the story ...
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... important Shakespeare's speeches are carefully constructed ; you must pay attention to their " architecture " as you shape them ( see Chapter 14 ) . Framing a key moment - Actions and words which are key moments in the development of a ...
... important Shakespeare's speeches are carefully constructed ; you must pay attention to their " architecture " as you shape them ( see Chapter 14 ) . Framing a key moment - Actions and words which are key moments in the development of a ...
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... important . Questions to ponder include : • What are the key words in your text ? What are the key ideas and the key events ? What must you get across above all else ? How can your voice and body make clear that this is especially important ...
... important . Questions to ponder include : • What are the key words in your text ? What are the key ideas and the key events ? What must you get across above all else ? How can your voice and body make clear that this is especially important ...
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acceleration acting action actor Agamemnon Appendix Athi audience beginning body build caesura central moment chair character character's choices circumstances climax Clytemnestra conjure create deceleration develop draft E.E. Cummings emotional emphasize endwords energy example explore expressive eyes fade father feel feet from/to gesture Gus Edwards Hamlet hand happened hear Hotspur I'm Not Rappaport Imagine implicit scene impulses indirect quote inner conflict inside the story Juliet language layered look metaphor moments Monologues move movement narrative speeches onomatopoeia onomatopoetic opposites performance phrase physical play point of view possible pullback Puntila rehearsal reliving rhythm rhythmic Romeo Romeo and Juliet Sam Shepard seam sentence set the scene Shakespeare shape single image slow snake handling sound sense space specific spondee stage syllables talk tell the story telling a story theater Titania transition trochee Tybalt voice Wesley Weston words