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Acting Is Believing

by: Mcgaw,Charles

Acting Is Believing

by: Mcgaw,Charles

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9780495050339
ISBN 10:
0495050334
Edition: 9th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 02/06/2006
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Emphasizing that "an actor must believe to make his audience believe," ACTING IS BELIEVING remains one of the classic texts in the field of acting. Charles McGaw's and Larry D. Clark's earlier editions influenced generations of actors, and the book has been completely updated by Kenneth Stilson with the hope of inspiring today's future professionals. The Ninth Edition has an expanded theoretical grounding, while providing numerous new and revised exercises to help today's acting student apply the key concepts of a Stanislavski-based training program as interpreted through the eyes of twenty-first century artists.

Foreword

Preface

xiii

PART I The Actor

CHAPTER 1 Training Your Talent

(17)

Acting with Professional Competence

(7)

Exploring Your Resources

(2)

Terms and People to Know

(2)

CHAPTER 2 Approaching the Creative State

(17)

Training Your Body

(2)

Conquering Inhibitions

(5)

Entering the Creative State

(8)

Exercise 2.1: Focusing

(1)

Exercise 2.2: Meditating

(1)

Exercise 2.3: Tensing and Releasing

(1)

Exercise 2.4: Centering

(1)

Exercise 2.5: Shaking

(1)

Exercise 2.6: Stretching

(3)

Exercise 2.7: Moving

(2)

Exercise 2.8: Vocalizing

(1)

Terms and People to Know

(1)

CHAPTER 3 Discovering Physical Actions

(25)

Committing Yourself to Action

(3)

Exercise 3.1: Discovering Actions

(1)

Believing Your Actions

(3)

Incorporating Improvisational Technique

(2)

Exercise 3.2: Improvising Simple Tasks

(1)

Making a Score of Physical Actions

(8)

Exercise 3.3: Scoring from Scenarios

(2)

Terms and People to Know

(3)

CHAPTER 4 Defining Simple Objectives

(28)

Stating the Objective

(1)

Exercise 4.1: Refining Your Score

(1)

Incorporating Action Verbs

(5)

Exercise 4.2: Doing Versus Being

(2)

Exercise 4.3: Action from an Emotional State

(1)

Exercise 4.4: Everyday Actions

(1)

Working Against Obstacles

(2)

Exercise 4.5: Opposing Objectives

(2)

Employing Strategy

(2)

Adapting to Changing Circumstances

(2)

Improvising Group Scenes

(8)

Exercise 4.6: Not on Speaking Terms

(1)

Exercise 4.7: Waiting

(1)

Exercise 4.8: Gibberish

(1)

Exercise 4.9: Aliens

(2)

Exercise 4.10: Building a Situation

(1)

Exercise 4.11: Group Improvisations from Scenarios

(1)

Exercise 4.12: Non-Content Scenes

(2)

Terms and People to Know

(3)

CHAPTER 5 Developing Your Powers of Observation

(21)

Exercise 5.1: Playing a Condition

(1)

Exercise 5.2: Three Objects

(1)

Exercise 5.3: Adjusting to Conditions

(1)

Observing People

(3)

Exercise 5.4: Observation Notebook

(1)

Adapting Observations Through the Imagination

(3)

Exercise 5.5: Supplying Circumstances for Observed Behavior

101

(1)

Exercise 5.6: Creative Impulses

102

(1)

Observing Objects and Animals

102

(5)

Exercise 5.7: Movement Abstracted from Inanimate Objects

104

(3)

Exercise 5.8: Movement Abstracted from Animals

107

(1)

Exercise 5.9: Creating a Score from Abstraction

107

(1)

Terms and People to Know

107

(2)

CHAPTER 6 Exploring Circles of Attention

109

(24)

Exercise 6.1: Distractions

111

(1)

Exercise 6.2: Add-a-Word i

111

(1)

Exercise 6.3: Body Coordination

112

(1)

Channeling Your Energy

112

(3)

Exercise 6.4: Concentrating on Action

114

(1)

Relating to Objects

115

(4)

Exercise 6.5: Scoring a Sequence with Objects

118

(1)

Infecting Your Partner

119

(5)

Exercise 6.6: Mirrors

119

(3)

Exercise 6.7: The Invisible Antennae

122

(1)

Exercise 6.8: Communion

122

(2)

Communing with the Audience

124

(2)

Making an Action of Speech

126

(5)

Exercise 6.9: Speaking Every Line with Purpose

127

(2)

Exercise 6.10: Key Line Improvisation

129

(2)

Terms and People to Know

131

(2)

CHAPTER 7 Investigating the Subconscious

133

(17)

Recalling Sense and Emotion Memory

135

(1)

Retaining an Original Experience

136

(1)

Selecting the Experience

137

(2)

Using the Experience

139

(2)

Exercise 7.1: Reconstructing an Experience

141

(1)

Visualizing Inner Images

141

(5)

Exercise 7.2: Seeing Images

144

(1)

Exercise 7.3: Image Improvisations

145

(1)

Planning Your Inner Monologues

146

(2)

Exercise 7.4: Speaking Your Inner Monologue

148

(1)

Terms and People to Know

148

(2)

PART II The Actor and the Play

CHAPTER 8 Creating a Character

150

(24)

Doing Your Homework

151

(2)

Penetrating the Script

153

(1)

Identifying the Motivating Force

154

(2)

Constructing "Your" Autobiography

156

(3)

Autobiographical Worksheet

159

(4)

Exercise 8.1: Constructing a Character Autobiography

161

(1)

Exercise 8.2: Completing the Thoughts

162

(1)

Uncovering the Units of Action

163

(1)

Scoring the Units

163

(4)

Exercise 8.3: Scoring a Role

167

(1)

Incorporating "Your" Second Plan

167

(2)

Exercise 8.4: Writing a Second Plan

169

(1)

Finding the Outer Form

169

(2)

Terms and People to Know

171

(3)

CHAPTER 9 Expressing the Super-Objective

174

(13)

Researching the World of the Play

175

(2)

Exercise 9.1: Researching Your Character's World

177

(1)

Finding the Super-Objective

177

(4)

Assuming a Dual Personality

181

(5)

Exercise 9.2: Relating the Super-Objective to Your Character

185

(1)

Terms and People to Know

186

(1)

CHAPTER 10 Interpreting the Lines

187

(27)

Exploring the Subtext

189

(5)

Exercise 10.1: Investigating Subtext

193

(1)

Finding the Verbal Action

194

(1)

Relating the Lines to the Motivating Force

195

(1)

Relating the Lines to the Super-Objective

196

(4)

Exercise 10.2: Interpreting Each Line

199

(1)

Believing Your Character's Manner of Speaking

200

(5)

Exercise 10.3: Studying Speech Patterns

205

(1)

Motivating the Longer Speech

205

(7)

Exercise 10.4: Practice Material for Longer Speeches

206

(6)

Terms and People to Know

212

(2)

CHAPTER 11 Communicating the Subtext

214

(22)

Understanding Words

215

(3)

Handling Sentences

218

(2)

Exercise 11.1: Finding Operative Words

220

(1)

Building a Progression

220

(3)

Thinking Antithetically

223

(1)

Sharing Imagery

224

(11)

Exercise 11.2: Practice Material for Communicating Subtext

227

(8)

Terms and People to Know

235

(1)

PART III The Actor and the Production

CHAPTER 12 Getting the Job

236

(22)

Understanding the Business of Acting

238

(7)

Preparing Your Audition

245

(4)

Auditioning

249

(6)

Exercise 12.1: Constructing Your Portfolio

254

(1)

Terms and People to Know

255

(3)

CHAPTER 13 Transforming into Character

258

(19)

Finding the Meaning

261

(2)

Developing Your Character

263

(1)

Creating and Refining the Form

264

(2)

Making Technical Adjustments

266

(1)

Polishing for Performance

267

(2)

Working at Rehearsals

269

(2)

Playing the Part

271

(3)

Terms and People to Know

274

(3)

APPENDIX A Suggested Plays for Scene Study

277

(8)

APPENDIX B Acting Power Verbs

285

(4)

APPENDIX C Theatre Resources

289

(5)

Endnotes

294

(5)

Bibliography

299

(4)

Index

303

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