Theatre and Acting

Theatre and Acting

Welcome to the Theatre and Acting Wikibook. This book is almost unwritten; therefore, feel free to dive in and write about whatever you know.

Table of contents

About the Theatre

• Introduction
• A Short History of the Theatre

Acting Warmups and Games

• Physical Warmups
• Vocal Warmups
• Facial Warmups
• Energy Warmups
• Focus Warmups
• Games

The First Principles of Acting

• Faith
• Impulse
• Honesty
• Objectives, Obstacles, Tactics
• Choices

Styles, Methods, Types of performance

• Improvisation
• Naturalism
• Coarse Acting
• Commedia dell'arte
• Theatre of Cruelty
• Epic Theatre
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Method Acting

Theatre Practitioners

• Antonin Artaud
• Bertolt Brecht
• Rudolf von Laban
• Samuel Beckett

Auditions

• Preparing For Auditions