1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786931503321

Titolo

Actresses' audition speeches for all ages and accents / / edited by Jean Marlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, , 2013

©2006

ISBN

1-4081-4137-X

1-4081-4138-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Audition Speeches

Disciplina

808.82/45

Soggetti

Monologues

Acting - Auditions

Drama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; acknowledgements; about auditioning; what auditioners look for; Rumu Sen-Gupta; Don Taylor; Katie Regan; Gillian Diamond; Gerry O'Hara; Richard Callanan; Allan Foenander; Carole Boyd; Roy Marsden; actresses' audition speeches; more ideas for speeches; useful addresses; copyright holders; Imprint Page

Sommario/riassunto

Finding good, interesting audition pieces is a demanding and difficult process for actresses. This revised edition of Actresses' Audition Speeches contains over 40 speeches and includes a wide selection of pieces taken from plays written or produced recently, such as Losing Louis , Whose Life is it Anyway? and His Dark Materials . There are speeches for a variety of accents and ages , taken from both classical and modern plays, to suit all audition requirements. There is also an introductory section containing advice from directors and casting directors on how to audition successfully.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779560503321

Autore

Gainty Denis.

Titolo

Martial arts and the body politic in Meiji Japan / / Denis Gainty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-06989-1

0-203-59095-3

1-299-46963-9

1-135-06990-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 81

Disciplina

796.80952

Soggetti

Martial arts - Japan - History

Human body - Social aspects - Japan

Human body - Political aspects - Japan

Japan History Meiji period, 1868-1912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Note to readers; Introduction; 1 The context for the Butokukai: the development of martial arts and the samurai as cultural forms in Tokugawa and early Meiji; 2 The Dainippon Butokukai: its founding, growth, and dissolution; 3 Capture the flag: spectacle and rhetoric; 4 Talking teaching: the rhetoric of martial arts in physical education; 5 Giving the state its legs: rethinking agency and the body through the Butokukai; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai's efforts to define and popularise Japanese martial arts became an important medium through which the bodies of millions of Japanese citizens would experience, draw on, and even shape the Japanese nation and state.This book shows how the notion and practice of Japanese martial arts in the late Me