Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook
by Viola Spolin
Northwestern University Press, 1985
Cloth: 978-0-8101-4001-1 | Paper: 978-0-8101-4002-8
TOC
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- PREPARATION
- The Director
- Theater Techniques
- Choosing the Play
- The Director's Objective
- Focus
- Casting
- Evaluation
- The Director as Sidecoach
- Sidecoaching
- Spontaneity—The Off-Balance Moment
- The Director's Ability to Inspire
- Rehearsals
- Theme
- The Acting "Side"
- Chapter 2
- WORKSHOPS
- Seeing and Not Staring
- Exposure
- Tug of War
- Three Changes
- Play Ball
- Mirror
- Who Is The Mirror?
- Follow the Follower
- Chapter 3
- THE FIRST REHEARSAL PERIOD
- Suggestions
- The First Reading
- Feeling Self with Self
- Vowels and Consonants
- Spelling
- Slow Motion
- Singing Dialogue
- Warm-Ups
- Explosion Tag
- Pussy Wants a Corner
- Who Started the Motion?
- Walk-Through Rehearsal
- Where (The Set)
- Where Game #1
- Where Game #2
- Where Game #3
- Give and Take
- Take and Give
- Give and Take Warm-Up
- Give and Take
- Converge And Re-Divide
- Stage Movement (Blocking)
- Sight Lines for an End Stage
- Stage Picture
- Stage Picture
- Stage Business
- Keep That!
- Chapter 4
- THE SECOND REHEARSAL PERIOD
- The Relaxed Rehearsal
- General Improvisations around the Play
- Begin and End with Objects
- Seeing the Word
- Explore and Heighten
- Laughter in Rehearsal
- Seasoning the Players
- The Nonstop Run-Through
- Biographies
- Chapter 5
- TUNE-UPS
- Reading Lines Naturally
- Gibberish: Selling
- Gibberish/English
- Memorization
- Timing
- Three-Way Conversation
- Contact
- Eye Contact #1
- Contact
- Contact with the Audience
- Eye Contact #2
- Listening to the Players
- Picking Up Cues
- Physicalization
- Showing Emotion (Inner Action) Through Objects
- Changing Emotion
- Emotion
- Changing Intensity of Emotion
- Camera
- Silence before Scenes
- Silence on Stage
- Silent Scream
- Silent Tension #1
- Silent Tension #2
- Theatricality
- Extended Sound
- Out of the Head! Into the Space!
- Space Substance
- Chapter 6
- THE THIRD REHEARSAL PERIOD
- Growing Stale
- Dubbing
- Part of a Whole, Object
- Verbalizing The Where, Part 1
- Verbalizing The Where, Part 2
- Spot Rehearsals
- Shadowing
- Shadowing
- Exits and Entrances
- Exits And Entrances
- Seeing the Show
- Stage Fright in the Director
- The Special Run-Through (Cutting the Umbilical Cord)
- Makeup and the Actor
- The Costume Parade
- The First Dress Rehearsal
- The Performance
- Random Pointers
- Chapter 7
- GAMES FOR CONTINUING REHEARSALS
- Character Games
- Physical Visualization
- Box Full of Hats
- How Old Am I?
- What Do I Do for a Living?
- Who Am I?
- Who Game #1
- Who Game #2
- How Old Am I? Repeat
- Exercise for the Back #1
- Exercise for the Back #2
- Hold It! #1
- Hold It! #2
- Mirror Penetration
- Transformation of Relation
- Listening/Hearing Games
- Mirror Sound
- Mirror Speech
- Stage Whisper
- Unrelated Conversations
- Vocal Sound Effects
- Who's Knocking?
- No Motion Games
- No Motion Warm-Up
- No Motion: Walking
- Space Games
- Finding Objects in the Immediate Environment
- Space Walks
- Space Walk #1
- Space Walk #2
- Space Walk #3: Skeleton
- Touch and Be Touched/See and Be Seen
- Traditional Games
- Object Relay
- When I Go To California
- Singing Syllables
- More Where Games
- The Specialized Where
- What Time Is It?
- What's Beyond: Activtty
- What's Beyond?
- Miscellaneous Games
- Add a Part
- Deaf Audience
- Blind
- Pitchman
- Occluding
- GLOSSARY OF SIDECOACHING PHRASES
- INDEX OF GAMES
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