Notes from an Odin actress : stones of water / / Julia Varley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828743703321
• Autore: Varley Julia <1954-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-93852-4; 1-136-93853-2; 1-282-78137-5; 9786612781377; 0-203-84704-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.02/8092; B
• Soggetti: Actors - Great Britain; Acting
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 First steps; 2 The dramaturgy of the actress; 3 Training; 4 Improvisation and composition; 5 Score and subscore; 6 Text and subtext; 7 The character; 8 The director; 9 The performance; 10 Faces, words, landscapes
• Sommario/riassunto: 'As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both myself and the character I am playing. I exist in the concreteness of the performance and, at the same time, I need to be alive in the minds and senses of the spectators. How can I speak of this double reality?' - Julia VarleyThis is a book about the experience of being an actress from a professional and female perspective. Julia Varley has been a member of Odin Teatret for over thirty years, and Notes from an Odin Actress is a p