Creativity: the Actor in Performance

Helen Trenos

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2014

Creativity: the Actor in Performance

Helen Trenos

https://doi.org/10.2478/9783110402100

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About this book

Creativity: the Actor in Performance focuses on what it takes to be a creative performer. Many stage-actors succeed in rehearsals, yet under-perform where it counts—in performance. But, as actors know, performance is a thing unto itself—something is going to have to happen out there beyond anything that happened in rehearsals. This book provides actors, their teachers and directors with insights into the creativity of the actor in performance.

An historical account of the emergence and development of one of the most generative concepts of our times – creativity - provides a theoretical backdrop to a critical discussion of the creativity of acting - a discussion that includes analyses of Denis Diderot, George Henry Lewes, William Archer, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, Michel Saint-Denis, Zeami and Eugenio Barba. Creativity: the actor in performance concludes by offering a detailed rationale for performance-oriented actor training, offering examples of workshop exercises (CREATICS) which focus on developing four main competencies crucial for successful and creative performances: situation awareness, audience awareness, divided consciousness and presence.

Stage Acting Theory and Practice; Creativity; Performance Theory and Practice.

Author information

Dr Helen Trenos, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of CREATICS Exercises Publicly Available Download PDF	VIII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
1 Creativity and Acting Publicly Available Download PDF	5
2 What is Acting? Publicly Available Download PDF	19
3 Stanislavsky: Guru and Villain Publicly Available Download PDF	33
4 CREATICS: Performance-Oriented Training Publicly Available Download PDF	42
References Publicly Available Download PDF	78
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	84

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Actors, Directors and Teachers of Acting
Pages
- Main content: 93
Keywords: Stage-acting; creativity; performing

eBook

Published: December 2, 2014
ISBN: 9783110402100

Hardcover

Published: December 1, 2014
ISBN: 9783110401967