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The Actor's Wheel of Connection: How to Integrate Your Skills and Refine Your Performance
The Actor's Wheel of Connection: How to Integrate Your Skills and Refine Your Performance
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Author: Richard Brestoff Publisher: Smith & Kraus Format: Softcover # of Pages: 160 Pub. Date: 2005 ISBN-10: 1575253917 ISBN-13: 9781575253916
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About
the Book:
The Actor's Wheel of Connection:
How to Integrate Your Skills and Refine Your Performance
uses the image of the wheel with six spokes to examine the craft of
acting. These six spokes represent an actor's connection to self,
others, circumstances, text, character, and audience. Each point of
connection is examined and experienced through specific exercises,
always keeping in mind that when the wheel is in motion, the spokes
disappear, as all great acting must.
This exciting book by acting teacher Richard Brestoff is a
breakthrough. It will change the way in which acting is discussed and
taught in the future. Simply put, The Actor's Wheel of Connection
puts together the craft of acting for the actor. You'll experience no
more conflict between inner and outer technique; no more conflict
between personal truth and character; no more barrier between actor
and audience.
Using exercises, which for maximum benefit he recommends always
doing in relation to text, not as standalone exercises, and a unique
troubleshooting section after each chapter, The Actor's Wheel of
Connection offers a complete, comprehensive, and graspable new
approach to acting that includes the entire chain of performance –
from personal truth to audience reception. Based on Stanislavsky but
applicable to all styles, the actor's wheel is made up of six
interconnected spokes. They are: connection to self, connection to
others, connection to circumstances, connection to text, connection
to character, and connection to audience. Each spoke is discussed in
detail with new examinations of personalization, objectives,
strategies, transitions, character, and that taboo subject, the
audience. But though each spoke is looked at separately, the wisdom
of the book lies in the knowledge that the wheel must be set in
motion – that is when the spokes disappear, as they must in all
great acting.
Richard Brestoff illustrates his points with brilliantly
chosen examples from films and plays and with insights from Robert
Lewis, Elia Kazan, Evgeny Vakhtangov, T.S. Eliot, Kevin Kline, and
even Sir Isaac Newton! Fresh and wise, this fine book is a must for
actors and teachers alike. The Actor's Wheel of Connection
shows the actor how to put it all together, from connection between
the actors, through circumstance, text, and character into the soul
of an audience.
What people say:
"This
excellent acting manual likens the craft to six spokes in a wheel ...
he underlines the importance of working without preconceived ideas
and not censoring first impulses. Also notable are Brestoff's
suggestions about characterization and the need to observe people, to
watch them eat, read, walk and talk, to see what they wear and how
they stand. The author concludes with a heartening message to actors,
reassuring them that what they bring to a performance is unique, and
that their contributions matter." — Publishers
Weekly
About the Author:
Richard Brestoff is a Professor of Drama in the Claire
Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine. He
is an actor with credits on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional
theatre, and in film, television and radio. |
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