Title: The Making of the Professional Actor
First published: 1996
Description: Adrian Cairns, an actor and director himself, has taught several generations of actors at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day-Lewis were two of his students. He provides a stimulating analysis of acting styles and training used on the Elizabethan stage, Restoration and 18th-century developments, Victorian acting in the grand manner , and 20th-century initiatives in Russia, Europe, England and the U.S. -- the French avant-garde, the German twenties, the turbulent thirties , the European gurus, and American actors. Cairns concludes with chapters on modern drama and the use of Controlled Environments, Virtual Reality, and Found Spaces. He predicts that ritual and a Renaissance of the Mysterious might be the most likely direction in the evolution of play-acting.
Subjects: Acting, Actors, History, Acteren, Regisseurs
LC classification: PN2061 .C28 1996