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Creating Solo Performance

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Creating Solo Performance is a practical and inspiring guide designed to support performers in developing their solo shows. The book offers a comprehensive collection of exercises and challenges covering key aspects such as beginnings, character creation, material generation, use of performance space, technology, endings, and collaboration. These tools can be approached sequentially or selectively to tailor the creative process to individual styles and subjects, making it an essential companion for solo performers.
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This book is ideal for performers seeking to create or refine a solo performance piece, theatre practitioners exploring solo work, and students of performance arts looking for structured yet flexible methodologies to develop their craft.

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Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you – the performer – with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space.

The creation of a solo show may be the most rewarding, liberating, and stressful challenge you will take on in your career. This book acts as your silent collaborator as you develop your performance, by helpfully arranging exercises under the following headings:

  • Beginnings
  • Creating character
  • Generating material
  • Using your performance space
  • Technology
  • Endings
  • Collaboration

Exercises can be explored in sequence, at random, or according to your specific needs and interests as a performer. By enabling you to create a bespoke formula that best applies to your specific subject, area of interest, style, and discipline, this book will become an indispensable resource as you produce your solo show.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415719988

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 September 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 362g

Pages: 286

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