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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Page 126
... stand behind or in front of or above or below or next to or far from another character , these choices create potentially significant spatial relationships . Space is also defined by how you insert your body into it . Imagine ...
... stand behind or in front of or above or below or next to or far from another character , these choices create potentially significant spatial relationships . Space is also defined by how you insert your body into it . Imagine ...
Page 131
... stand it here . I couldn't stand the idea that everything would stay the same . That every morning it would be the same . I kept looking for it out there somewhere . - Weston has repeatedly gone AWOL on his family . The " here " he ...
... stand it here . I couldn't stand the idea that everything would stay the same . That every morning it would be the same . I kept looking for it out there somewhere . - Weston has repeatedly gone AWOL on his family . The " here " he ...
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... stand up on that one . Somethin ' brought me straight up off the ground and I started yellin ' my head off . I don't know why it was comin ' outa ' me but I was standing there with this icy feeling up my backbone and just yelling my ...
... stand up on that one . Somethin ' brought me straight up off the ground and I started yellin ' my head off . I don't know why it was comin ' outa ' me but I was standing there with this icy feeling up my backbone and just yelling my ...
Common terms and phrases
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