The Purpose of Playing by Robert Gordon
The Purpose of Playing providesthe first in-depth introduction to modern critical acting, enabling students, teachers, and professionals to comprehend the different aesthetic possibilities available to today’s actors. The book presents a comparative survey of the major approaches to Western acting since the nineteenth century, their historical evolution, and their relationship to one another. Author Robert Gordon explores six categories of acting: realistic approaches to characterization (Stanislavski, Vakhtangov, Strasberg, Chekhov); the actor as a scenographic instrument (Appia, Craig, Meyerhold); improvisation and games (Copeau, Saint-Denis, Laban, Lecoq); political theater (Brecht, Boal); exploration of the self and other (Artaud, Grotowski); and performance as cultural exchange (Brook, Barba). The synthesis of these principal theories of dramatic performance in a single text offers practitioners the knowledge they need to contextualize their own practice within the wider field of performance, while encouraging theorists and scholars to be more sensitive to the material realities of artistic practice.
“This analysis of major movements and figures from the early nineteenth century to the present is clear, thorough, and penetrating, and its scope across periods, countries, and styles is impressive.”
--Xerxes Mehta, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Robert Gordon is Reader in Drama, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Space in Performance
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Approaching the Millennium
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Critical Theory and Performance
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David Mamet in Conversation
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Tom Stoppard in Conversation
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Arthur Miller's America
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Feeling Yellow
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Performance Constellations
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Democracy Moving
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Sails of the Herring Fleet
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No Safe Spaces
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Directing Beckett
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Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis
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Acting the Part
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Fantasies of Ito Michio
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Simming
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Alienation Effects
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Scenes from Bourgeois Life
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Acting as Reading
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Not the Other Avant-Garde
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Embodying Black Experience
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Brian Friel in Conversation
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Staging Place
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After Live
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Foundations of Christian Living
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Start and Run A Successful Cleaning Business
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Respect Yourself
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Can't Be Satisfied
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The Elvis Treasures
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Elvis the King on the Road
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Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature
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British Musical Theatre since 1950
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Degas
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It Came from Memphis
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Fifty Key Anthropologists
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The Theatre of Kander and Ebb
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The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical
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21st Century Rosicrucianism
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Robert Gordon with Link Wray
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First Steps in the Way
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Marcus Sante Guralnick & Gordon Rockabilly Twang Heard Round World Bam
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Jazz West Coast
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Memphis Rent Party
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Master Builders
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Too Fast to Live... Too Young to Die
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Waste and Discard in Italy and the Mediterranean
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The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies
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The Hole in The Sky
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A Second Letter to the Right Hon. Viscount of Melbourne on the Liberty of the Subject as Affected by the Atrocious System of Imprisonment for Debt
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Intelligent Transportation Systems
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The Bushman Myth
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The Lost Album, Plus...
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Uno Uno spazio narrativo immersivo
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The Jungle Is Near
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Studies in the Targum to the Twelve Prophets
Robert Gordon is Reader in Drama, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780472068876 |
| ISBN 10 | 0472068873 |
| Title | The Purpose of Playing |
| Author | Robert Gordon |
| Series | Theater: Theory Text Performance |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Michigan Press |
| Year published | 2006-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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