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Shakespeare And Company by Bella Merlin, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What's his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company's aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material - including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries - and the Company's newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details:Shakespeare & Company's founding and early historyIts aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre's principles of theArt of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight;andActor/Audience RelationshipVocational components of itsTrainingIntensivesPractical pedagogy of itsEducationprogramsInsights into its unique approaches toPerformanceImpact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training), Kevin G. Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director).Actors, directors, students, educators, scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies, inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over 40 years. | Shakespeare And Company by Bella Merlin, Paperback | Indigo Chapters