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Acting in Documentary Theatre
Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre. Through a series of high profile case studies, Cantrell uses acting theory to examine the actors' complex processes, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of stage performance.
Acting in British Television
This fascinating text offers the first in-depth exploration of acting processes in British television. Focused around 16 new interviews with celebrated British actors, including Rebecca Front, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ken Stott, Penelope Wilton and John Hannah, this rich resource delves behind the scenes of a range of British television programmes in order to find out how actors build their characters for television, how they work on set and location, and how they create their critically acclaimed portrayals. The book looks at actors' work across four diverse but popular genres: soap opera; police and medical drama; comedy; and period drama. Its insightful discussion of hit programmes and its critical and contextual post-interview analysis, makes the text an essential read for students across television and film studies, theatre, performance and acting, and cultural and media studies, as well as academics and anyone interested in acting and British television.
Exploring Television Acting
The first collection of its kind to bring together scholarly and practitioner perspectives, this book analyses the experiences, skills and techniques of actors when working on television. Featuring eleven chapters by internationally distinguished researchers and actor trainers, this collection examines the acting processes and resulting performances of some of the most acclaimed television actors. Topics include: studio and location realism; actor training for television; actor well-being in the television industry; performance in reality television and British and Irish actors in contemporary US television and film. The book also contains case studies examining the work of Emmy-award-winning actor Viola Davis and the iconic character of Gene Hunt in Life on Mars (BBC, 2006-2007).
Research and Development in UK Theatre
This is the first book to explore how research and development (R & D) is used in contemporary British theatre-making, how it exists as a specific, often discrete methodology and how you can use it in your own theatre-making. Featuring chapters by internationally recognised researchers, as well as interviews with innovative theatre-makers, it provides emerging theatre-makers with a handy guide to using R&D as part of their own practice, offering hints and tips from practitioners across the British theatre landscape. Giving insights into their experience of A&D are artistic director Jenny Sealey, movement directors Joseph Alford and Vicki Ikbogwe, performer Selina Thompson, designers Tom Morr...
Playing For Real
"For the last two decades theatre, film and television have reflected a growing obsession with the real throughout the world... Established actors and newcomers report that they are increasingly offered parts based on persons of note... Is it possible to identify differences between preparing for and acting a real person and preparing for and acting a fictional character? What are the specific challenges of playing a real person as opposed to a fictional one... All of the actors interviewed approach their roles in different ways... three major areas... provide useful frames for consideration: researching the part; acting strategies; and performer and audience... Playing a real person brings with it a specific sense of responsibility both towards the subject and the spectator... The actor's need to be able to justify their portrayal to themselves seems to inform their process in terms of a commitment to exercising a greater control over his or her own ego or imagination... These actors speak of a finely balanced combination of careful research and conjuration." -- Introduction.
The Water Lawyer
A brilliant young attorney struggling with his Native American roots unravels a murder-for-hire scheme at a prestigious Denver law firm. Aided by his ranching girlfriend, a retired senator, an ex-con and a retired Alaskan FBI agent, he must outmaneuver hired killers, corrupt lawyers and powerful politicians. Is water worth killing for? It is in the modern day Wild, Wild West.
Second Life
What happens when the reporter becomes the story? On his wedding anniversary Jason Polk leaves his wife home alone... again while he pursues a story that he believes will propel him to a career as a big time investigative reporter. Outside his hometown, BalderTech has built a compound that seems to have no purpose and Jason is determined to find out what they are doing. When Jason finally gets the evidence he needs, he is brutally attacked and knocked unconscious. He wakes up in his car, in a junkyard and learns that three years have gone by. Presumed dead, Jason must piece together his life while trying to find out what happened to him during those lost years. The challenge becomes greater when it appears that there are people out there that wish to make his presumed death a reality.
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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
