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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorthwestern University Press

ISBN-100810140101

ISBN-139780810140103

eBay Product ID (ePID)1893249

Product Key Features

Number of Pages144 Pages

Publication NameTheater Games for the Lone Actor : a Handbook

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

SubjectTheater / General, General, Acting & Auditioning

TypeHandbook

AuthorViola Spolin

Subject AreaPerforming Arts

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.3 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2001-001965

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal792/.028

Edition DescriptionHandbook (Instructor's)

SynopsisFor the first time, a Spolin guide for the individual actor to side-coach themselves Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Lone Actor offers theater games and side coaching for the solo player. This handbook presents more than forty exercises that allow actors to side coach themselves at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. Building on her seminal Improvisation for the Theater, Spolin challenges the actor to develop an ability to enter present time, "a moment of full consciousness, awareness, continuous time, a timeless moment...with all of your responses awake and alert, ready to guide you... allowing you, the real you, your natural self, to emerge." Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theater. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology., Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Lone Actor offers theater games and side coaching for the solo player. Available for the first time, this handbook presents more than forty exercises that allow actors to side coach themselves at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theater. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology., This handbook presents theatre games and side coaching for the solo player. It contains over 40 exercises which allow actors to side coach themselves, at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. The author asks the actor to develop the ability to enter present time, a moment of full consciousness and awareness with all the responses awake and alert, ready to guide you.... allowing you, the real you, your natural self to emerge.

LC Classification NumberPN2071.I5S63 2001