Shakespeare and Lecoq: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Tea

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This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Jacques Lecoq to the process of rehearsing or workshopping the Shakespeare text.Written by theatre practitioner Ed Woodall, who trained with Lecoq himself, and Shakespeare academic Abigail Rokison-Woodall, this guide begins with warm-ups and ensemble-building, and moves through explorations of the story, the world of the play, the text, character emotion, thought and physicality and staging.Lecoq's method often relies on 'play', and play is often seen as trivial or inconsequential. This book argues that the more playful you are, the more playfully you investigate your speech or scene and the more physically motivated that playfulness is, the more vital and lifelike your acting of Shakespeare will be.

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Abigail Rokison-Woodall is Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She began her career as a professional actor, training at LAMDA. Her first monograph, Shakespearean Verse Speaking won the Shakespeare's Globe first book award. She has authored a number of journal articles and chapters on Shakespeare and theatre, as well as Shakespeare for Young People, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner and As You Like It: Language and Writing.Ed Woodall is an acting coach and movement director. He trained with Jacques Lecoq at the École Jacques Lecoq between 1989-91 and has worked in physical theatre with Complicité, Improbable and Kneehigh as well as acting in a number of films and RSC productions of Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Warm-UpsChapter 2. Building an EnsembleChapter 3. Exploring the StoryChapter 4. Exploring the World of PlayChapter 5. Exploring the World of TextChapter 6. Character 1 - Exploring Character, Emotion and ThoughtChapter 7. Character 2 - Exploring Character PhysicalityChapter 8. Character 3 - Exploring Character TypesChapter 9. Laughter and PlayChapter 10. Staging the PlaysIndex

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Provides insights into how the work of Jacques Lecoq can be applied to the rehearsal process for a Shakespeare play or scene-study.

Details ISBN1350244090 Author Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall Series Arden Performance Companions Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781350244092 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-06-13 Subtitle A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers Edited by Simon Russell Beale Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint The Arden Shakespeare Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 8 bw illus Audience Tertiary & Higher Education UK Release Date 2024-06-13 AU Release Date 2024-07-10 Pages 240 ISBN-10 1350244090 DEWEY 822.33 We've got this

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