'Acting technique/acting practice'.(Special Section: Approaches to Theatre Training 2004)

American Theatre, January, 2004

The four articles in this year's special section on training examine some of the recent century's primary trends in actor-training technique--from the biomechanics of Vsevolod Meyerhold to the Practical Aesthetics of David Mamet--and range over multiple generations as well--from the teenage performers in Chicago's Free Street Programs to the mature professionals enriching their careers at New York City's innovative Actors Center.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Actors, particularly, whether or not they subscribe to the techniques under discussion, will want to delve into the dialectic between theory and practice--between the training systems evoked in detail by Russian acting specialists Anatoly Smeliansky and Valery Fokin, Mamet acolyte Jordan Lage, Free...

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