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- catalog abstract "Contemporary literary theory, though it sometimes embraces the values of performance has rarely addressed the concerns of the professional performer. The Actor's Instrument: Body, Theory, Stage reinterprets performance at a theoretical level and applies theory to acting problems in the attempt to offer new options to the professional artist. Hollis Huston scrutinizes with a highly theoretical eye the specific and practical problems of performance, believing that such philosophical thinking will enable artists to reappropriate the powers of the theatrical art. Huston challenges the notion that the director is the central figure in theater. Drawing on theater history and architecture, on contemporary corporeal research, on philosophies of text and representation, and on his experience in the acting studio, he shows that the director's theater is only one of many ways in which theater might be organized. The Actor's Instrument challenges directors, theater scholars and artists to see theater in a larger context. It offers the acting teacher a new physiological interpretation of the performer's breathing, as it supports voice, movement, role, and the spectator's attention. It describes the performance contract, as it is seen most simply in street theater, and speculates on what a performer's theater might be like. The book also offers a poetics of the central stage and suggests a new way of writing about performance.".
- catalog contributor b3801864.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Contemporary literary theory, though it sometimes embraces the values of performance has rarely addressed the concerns of the professional performer. The Actor's Instrument: Body, Theory, Stage reinterprets performance at a theoretical level and applies theory to acting problems in the attempt to offer new options to the professional artist. Hollis Huston scrutinizes with a highly theoretical eye the specific and practical problems of performance, believing that such philosophical thinking will enable artists to reappropriate the powers of the theatrical art.".
- catalog description "Huston challenges the notion that the director is the central figure in theater. Drawing on theater history and architecture, on contemporary corporeal research, on philosophies of text and representation, and on his experience in the acting studio, he shows that the director's theater is only one of many ways in which theater might be organized. The Actor's Instrument challenges directors, theater scholars and artists to see theater in a larger context. It offers the acting teacher a new physiological interpretation of the performer's breathing, as it supports voice, movement, role, and the spectator's attention. It describes the performance contract, as it is seen most simply in street theater, and speculates on what a performer's theater might be like.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.".
- catalog description "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Crossing over -- The gest of the breath -- The actor's instrument -- Waiting for space -- The simple stage -- How did we get here? -- Simple staging -- Performance, thought, and Roland Barthes.".
- catalog description "The book also offers a poetics of the central stage and suggests a new way of writing about performance.".
- catalog extent "vi, 218 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Actor's instrument.".
- catalog identifier "0472103083 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Actor's instrument.".
- catalog isPartOf "Theater--theory/text/performance".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Actor's instrument.".
- catalog subject "792/.01 20".
- catalog subject "Acting.".
- catalog subject "PN2039.H87 1992".
- catalog subject "Theater Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Crossing over -- The gest of the breath -- The actor's instrument -- Waiting for space -- The simple stage -- How did we get here? -- Simple staging -- Performance, thought, and Roland Barthes.".
- catalog title "The actor's instrument : body, theory, stage / Hollis Huston.".
- catalog type "text".