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This review is from: The Presence of the Actor (Paperback)
If I could possess only one book, I would choose this book. Chaiken candidly describes profound moments of awareness in his work and in his life, and the relationship between these. This is not a conventional book about the theater, but rather a complicated and understandably inconclusive examination of being and enduring and striving toward authenticity within the confines of an inauthentic "setup." It begins..."Most of the people I know who are seriously interested in the theater don't really like it very much." If you like this book, try The Performance of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman.
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The great thing about Joseph Chaikin is that he doesn't just give you method's to work on. He tells you how he did it in detail. He gives life experiences and tells you the struggles he went through to do the method he is now telling you about. I would suggest this book because I believe he gives good notes on acting that would any actor.
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He, Peter Brook and Oida all are on my favorite list of books about acting and theatre. This is a very
valuable book and must be included for any person interested in contemporary drama and art. I gave my copy to my daughter but will purchase another one soon.
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Most of the people I know who are seriously interested in the theater don't really like it very much. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
open theater, political theater Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Living Theater, Joseph Chaikin, New York, Galy Gay, Des Moines, John Wayne, Martin Luther King, Shami Chaikin, America Hurrah, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Jim Barbosa, Man Is Man, Peter Maloney, Paul Zimet, Ron Faber, Tina Shepard, Tootsie Rolls New!
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- Happy Days by Samuel Beckett on page 135
- Saint Joan by Geroge Bernard Shaw on page 5
- Mother Courage and Her Children (Modern Plays) by David Hare on page 38
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- Twentieth Century Actor Training by Alison Hodge on 9 pages
- Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights (Studies in Modern Drama) by Kimball King on page 263, page 270, and page 271
- Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights (Studies in Modern Drama) by Kimball King on page 263, page 270, and page 271
- The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama (Postmodern Studies 37) by Kerstin Schmidt on page 92, page 94, and Back Matter
- Drama/Theatre/Performance (The New Critical Idiom) by Simon Shepherd on page 226, and Back Matter
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