Acting Through Mask

Download or read book Acting Through Mask written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of his "Mask: A Release of Acting Resources" David Griffiths examines the present state of actor-training, and surveys past experiments and styles developed by Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Grotowski and Brecht. He recommends a way in which the standards of performance skills in theatre may parallel those already established in other performing arts such as music and dance. The author's philosophy as a theatre practitioner is the mask and here he explains the special skills required to animate it, helping the reader by extensive and cogent use of his own illustrations.