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Shakespeare's Advice to the Players
Shakespeare's Advice to the Players
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Author: Peter Hall Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Format: Softcover # of Pages: 212 Pub. Date: 2003 ISBN-10: 1559362340 ISBN-13: 9781559362344
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About the Book:
Shakespeare's text is packed with clues that tell the actor when but never why or how. Sir Peter Hall tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow and when to accent a particular word. Reading Shakespeare's Advice to the Players makes watching or reading Shakespeare a richer experience, for audiences as well as actors.
Shakespeare's Advice to the Players also celebrates Peter Hall's fifty years as a director of Shakespeare; from his early days at Cambridge, through founding the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford on Avon in the early 1960s, and later to his fifteen years as the director of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Throughout these years, Peter Hall worked with the greatest Shakespearean actors of our generation including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Charles Laughton and in later years Judi Dench, Anthony Hopkins, Ian Holm, David Warner, and many others. Through this great line flows a tradition of speaking and understanding Shakespeare that remains as relevant and important today. And it is Peter Hall's experience of working and learning with these and many other actors over the years that underpins the core of this book.
What people say:
"This is a fabulously hybrid book — part actor's handbook, part memoir — but what is most inspiring is Hall’s conviction that form can be as exciting as feeling. Acting in this way is more than just listening to Shakespeare — it is 'responding to Shakespeare's linear needs'." — The Observer
"…Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players about the art of Shakespearean verse-speaking, and the clues in the text that tell actors how to speak it. He talks spellbindingly on the subject and I suspect both acting students and young professionals will flock to learn from him." — The Telegraph
About the Author:
Sir Peter Hall is perhaps the most influential and certainly the most industrious figure in British theatre today. He has directed over two hundred productions, including the world premiere in English of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and the premieres of most of Harold Pinter's plays. |
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