Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

Index
NOTE: Page references in italic indicate a
photograph.
Abbey Theatre (Dublin), 296
Abbott, George, 173
Abrahami, Natalie, 316
Abramović, Marina, “The Artist Is Present,” 271
Absurd Person Singular (Ayckbourn), 237
Abydos Passion Play (ancient Egypt), 93, 193
academic amateur theatre, 292–293, 293
ACTER (now called Actors), 51
acting
basic acting exercises, 42–43
Denis Diderot’s “Paradox of Acting” on, 40–41
description of, 10, 38–39
developing an approach to, 52–53
emotion memory technique of, 44
film stars on experience of stage, 18
“high” experience of, 58
isolation and complexity of, 37–38
kabuki (Japanese theatre), 211–213
maintaining spontaneity over life of same
performance, 57
“the Method” derived from Stanislavsky
approach to, 41, 44–45
from the outside approach to, 45
routine of, 55–58
Socrates on, 39
writing dialogue that are pretexts for great, 62
See also performance
acting exercises
the dance, 42
the reach, 42
the seven situations of “what did you do last
night?,” 42–43
the shadowbox, 42
acting virtuosity, 47
actor-coaching, 169–170
An Actor Prepares (Stanislavsky), 43, 44–45, 47
actor routine
audition component of, 55–56
performance component, 57–58
rehearsal component, 56–57
actors
Aesopus (ancient Roman actor), 39
Brecht’s view on critical objectivity
established by actors, 234
Chinese, xiqu, 125, 207–209
classic paradoxes of theatre and, 5
coaching during rehearsals, 169–170
developing a routine, 55–58
developing an approach, 52–53
director casting of the, 161–163
“high” experienced from performance, 58
maintaining spontaneity during weeks and
months of performance, 57
nontraditional casting of, 267, 269
the personal life and professional career of, 58
“presence” or “magic” of, 48
the self as instrument of the, 52, 53–55
as a virtuoso, 46–47
See also characters
actor’s instrument
discipline as, 55
movement as, 53–54, 56, 169
the psychological instrument, 54–55
voice and speech as, 53
Actors Studio, 41, 45, 47
Actors Theatre of Louisville, 226
An Actor’s Work (Stanislavsky), 45
Actors’ Workshop (San Francisco), 291
Adamov, Arthur, 232
The Adding Machine (Rice), 99, 226, 227
Adler, Richard
Damn Yankees, 245, 247
Pajama Game, 245, 247
Adler, Stella, 45
Aeschylus
Agamemnon, 106
The Eumenides, 240
Oresteia, 2, 21
plays written and produced by, 194
Prometheus Bound, 96–97, 116
roles played by, 11
The Suppliants, 196
Aesopus (ancient Roman actor), 39
The Affair (TV show), 74
Affleck, Ben, 18
After the Fall (Miller), 30
Agamemnon (Aeschylus), 106
Aida (film), 76
Aida (musical), 250
Aidem, Betsy, 16
AIDS, play about, 35, 74–75
AIDS crisis issue, 266, 268
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Blake), 249
Airline Highway (D’Amour), 104
Akhtar, Ayad, Disgraced, 48, 291
Akitaya, Kazunori, 23
Aladdin (Menken), 153, 250, 252, 269
Aladdin Theatre (Parowan, Utah), 294
Albee, Edward
A Delicate Balance, 288
as gay playwright, 265
Peter and Jerry (now At Home in the Zoo), 68
as playwright and director, 60
theatre of the absurd works by, 232
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 51
The Zoo Story, 35, 68
Albert Theatre (London), 29
Alberts, Kevin, 88
Alcaraz, Lonnie, 88
Alcestis (Euripides), 301
Alda, Alan, 65
Aldredge, Theoni V., 117, 247
Alex-Meskhishvilli, Georgi, 147
Alice in Wonderland (Chin), 76
Alice in Wonderland (immersive production), 286
All My Sons (Miller), 135, 287
All That Jazz (film), 247
All the Way (Schenkkan), 16, 63
Allam, Roger, 167, 297
Allen, Jay Presson, Tru, 281
Allen, Woody, 248
Alley Theatre (Houston), 291
Almeida Theatre (London), 99, 295
amateur criticism, 317
amateur theatre, 11, 292–293, 293
American Airlines Theatre, 268
American cinema
Broadway musicals turned into films, 245
Disney films that have inspired Broadway
musicals, 2, 250
film stars on experience of stage acting, 18
plays created from films of the, 2
special effects being adopted by the theatre, 269
American Place Theatre, 289
The American Play (Parks), 67, 77, 82
American Psycho, 275
American realism, historical accuracy in design
used in, 116–117
American Repertory Theatre, 16, 81, 104, 222,
300, 301
American Sign Language (ASL), 267
American Theater, 83, 300
American Theatre Company, 291
The Americans (TV show), 74
ancient drama
Egyptian Abydos Passion Play, 93, 193
ritual as early form of, 2–3
Roman theatre, 196–197
Shamanism, trance, magic of dance-drama,
189–191
Sinhalese sanniyakuma, 191–192
storytelling, 190
Sub-Saharan Africa, 192
See also Greek plays
ancient Greece
classic period of, 193–194
Dionysia festival (ancient Athens),
193, 195–196
Dionysian worship of, 2, 193
dithyramb fertility ritual of, 193
masks used by actors in, 12–13, 13
shared history of theatre and games in, 11
use of mechanical devices, 97
See also Greek theatre
ancient Roman theatre
influence on Italian Renaissance commedia
dell’arte by, 201
Roman drama, 196–197
shared history of theatre and games in, 11
. . . And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid (Weiss),
281
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