21 March 2008
Getting the most from your acting books
Posted by admin under: Acting .
Here is an article I found about getting the most from your actors and acting books
In a nutshell the article discusses what is good about these types of books and what you can live without.
On the same site, there may be another article worth reading. Its an article discussing acting technique and gives some history behind it.
Here is part of that acting article.
Theatergoers in England by the beginning of the 17th century learned how to distinguish Hamlet by actor-manager, Thomas Betterton. This was accomplished by other productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Using different staging of familiar and classical plays sharpened spectator’s senses. Good acoustics were designed into theater halls to help performers to be heard differently and to have more subtle and natural reflections. Visual details of a performance were easily perceived and critiqued with the introduction of indoor stage lighting. Individual actor’s faces and hands were then displayed by the indoor stage lighting.
