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Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed

A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare
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Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare explains how Shakespeare's plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal. It provides a set of performance guidelines with examples from the First Folio, showing how these create stage business, blocking, and story clarity. The book then offers step-by-step instructions for producing unrehearsed performances.
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Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare’s plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice.

Each chapter is devoted to a specific guideline, demonstrating through examples how it can be applied to pieces of text from Shakespeare’s First Folio, how it creates blocking and stage business, and how it enhances story clarity. Once the guidelines have been established, practical means of production are discussed, providing the reader with sufficient step-by-step instruction to prepare for Unrehearsed performances.

This book is written for the actor and performer.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815352099

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 March 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 2 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Bill Kincaid is a Professor of Theatre at Western Illinois University, and founder of Bard in the Barn, an event that has mounted Unrehearsed productions of 17 of Shakespeare’s plays. He has acted in Shakespeare productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the New England Shakespeare Festival, and Chicago’s Vitalist Theatre, and directs regularly at the Crossroads Repertory Theatre in Indiana and New York’s Cortland Repertory Theatre. He is a three-time recipient of the Classical Acting Coach Award from the National Partners— American Theatre, and was presented with the Illinois Theatre Association’s Award of Honor in 2014.

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