Reflections on the Art of Acting by Peter Lobdell
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Reflections on the Art of Acting


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"Reflections on the Art of Acting" is a small book - a tiny book. It makes a singular and clear point about acting that hasn't been well articulated in the history of writing about acting. I describe, define, and delineate "the double". The actor - the character. "Reflections on Acting" is a mini-memoir as I use a few stories from my life in the theater to illustrate my conviction that acting is a rare art - even as it is ubiquitous as advertising, entertainment, and diversion. I write to argue to my readers, both in the theater and outside, that we can live deliberately and improvisationally at the same time. Paradox is the center of the art of acting. In "Reflections on the Art of Acting" I use the Tao Te Ching as a goad to my thinking. The poetry of the Tao Te Ching allows me to write in a slightly elevated way, every now and then. This book is small, but it is highly concentrated. I was hugely affected by Eugen Herrigal's Zen in the Art of Archery. Joe Chaikin's The Presence of the Actor has inspired me to think about what I do and what I teach. Obviously this little book has to be presented as an art object. It should appeal to a much wider audience than theater teachers, students, and professionals. Setting my writing against the Tao Te Ching has allowed me to articulate artistic ideals in the training and practice of acting. I have also given non-actors some keys to creative concentration. I hope to inspire my readers to the notion that an examined life might do without judgment.
About the Author: Peter Lobdell made his Broadway debut with "Equus" as director of mime and movement in 1975. He has directed movement for ten productions of "Equus", most recently at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the Alley Theatre in Houston. He was a movement coach for the Broadway company of "The Elephant Man". He has created and performed more than thirty works of movement theater seen at Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, A Clear Space, the Cubiculo, and La Mama ETC in New York. His work has been presented regionally at the Long Wharf, St. Louis Rep, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Yale Rep Winterfest, Dancer's Collective of Atlanta and Milwaukee Center for the Arts; internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, HOT in the Hague, Netherlands, the 9th Annual Festival of Marionettes in Ascona, Switzerland, and the T2 Studio in Tokyo, Japan. Most recently, he directed the movement for productions of "Our Town at the Hartford Stage Company and at the Alley Theatre. He has adapted Italo Calvino's "The Tavern of Crossed Destinies", Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", and Amos Tutuola's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" for the stage, all produced at Amherst College. He wrote and performed a one man piece, "Raving", premiered at the Michael Howard Studio in New York and later performed at the Metropolitan Playhouse in New York. He wrote and directed a new play with stage magic, "C'est La Vie", produced at Amherst College. He has taught movement and acting for the Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts and for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. He was director of the movement program at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York for twelve years and he taught at the Michael Howard Studio. Presently he is a senior resident artist in the Department of Theater and Dance at Amherst College.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781481201681
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Using the Tao Te Ching as a Mirror
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1481201689
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 168 gr


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