| Contents |
Year one: Experiencing -- An actor's work, introduction -- Amateurism -- The stage as art and stock-in-trade -- Action, 'if', 'given circumstances' -- Imagination -- Concentration and attention -- Muscular release -- Bits and tasks -- Belief and the sense of truth -- Emotion memory -- Communication -- An actor's adaptations and other elements, qualities, aptitudes and gifts -- Inner psychological drives -- Inner psychological drives in action -- The actor's inner creative state -- The supertask, throughaction -- The subconscious and the actor's creative state -- Year two: Embodiment -- Transition to physical embodiment -- Physical education -- Voice and speech -- Perspective of the actor and the role -- Tempo-rhythm -- Logic and sequence -- Physical characteristics -- The finishing touches -- Charisma -- Ethics and discipline -- The external creative state in performance -- General creative state in performance -- The 'system'. |
