Timothy Mooney
Acting at the Speed of Life
Conquering Theatrical Style
Response
"Tim Mooney calls us back to the basics, and it's about time! Acting at the Speed of Life communicates with clarity, wisdom and practicality. This text belongs in every theatre artist's bookbag."
(Jeff Barker, Northwestern College Theatre Chair)
"With clarity and specificity, and no small amount of humor, Mooney provides no-nonsense steps to approach the demands of stylized acting that will be of essential value to both beginning and veteran actors."
(James Fisher, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
"Applicable to all manner of plays—modern as well as those from the classic past. Bravo!"
(David Deacon, Theatre Professor, Texas A&M University-Kingsville)
"All the examples from (Mooney's) own acting or teaching experiences really help to make it an easy read... NO other book I've read captures these simple tasks that are so important."
(Janice Fronczak, University of Nebraska-Kearney Theatre Chair)
Theatre Library Association and Other Reviews
About the Book
An acting textbook focusing on stylized performance. Moving from the fundamentals of "Being Seen" and "Being Heard," to challenges of Asides, Soliloquies, and explorations of "Hamlet," "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe." Based on Timothy Mooney's popular Acting Workshop, Mooney expands his topic to cover issues of memorization, pursuit of objectives, "presence" and the mastery of rhetoric.
From the cover:
The best acting workshop you never attended!
Acting students all over the U.S. have the three steps of Tim Mooney's "Hamlet" exercise indelibly imprinted in their brain! In a brief two-hour session, this workshop completely upends the way performers look at dialogue! With Acting at the Speed of Life, Mooney goes beyond what he is able to squeeze into this hugely successful master class, to share secrets of Theatrical Power! The results are immediate, for actors, teachers and anyone seeking to boost the power of their "presence" in public!
Among the book's many lessons, you'll learn to...
Stop Stopping yourself!
Make Memorization Stick!
Triumph Over Rhetorical Speech!
Incorporate the 'Stuff' of Historical Style!
Uncover Theatrical Convention in Modern Life!
Go Ridiculously Beyond the Bounds of "Realism!"
Capture Emotional Action by Pursuing its Opposite!
About the Author
Timothy Mooney is the author/adaptor of "Breakneck Hamlet" and "Shakespeare's Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!" new one-man plays which "crack the code" on Shakespeare's most challenging plays, making them accessible to audiences everywhere. Mooney's acting textbook "Acting at the Speed of Life" is breathing life into stylistic performance at high schools and colleges, while his "The Big Book of Moliere Monologues," has given actors everywhere a new resource for comic classical auditions. Over fifteen years, Tim has performed his very first one-man play, "Moliere than Thou" over 500 times, giving some hundred thousand students their first introduction to Moliere. He also presents one monologue from every Shakespeare play in his one-man show, "Lot o' Shakespeare," along with his collection of some of the most amazing speeches ever, in "The Greatest Speech of All Time." Mooney is the former founder and editor of "The Script Review" and also the former Artistic Director of Chicago's Stage Two Theatre, where he produced nearly fifty plays in five years, including many new versions of the plays of Moliere, featuring Mooney's impish sense of rhyme. These seventeen iambic pentameter variations of the plays (most published by Playscripts, Inc.), have been produced over 150 times, around the world. These productions have gone on to high school competition finals around the U.S., while his "Doctor in Spite of Himself", took third place in the Scottish Community Drama Association National Festival. Mr. Mooney continues to present six one-man shows across North America, and expects to be very busy with his three Shakespeare shows in the coming year, celebrating the life of Shakespeare through the four hundredth anniversary of the great playwright's passing.
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Acting at the Speed of Life 19.95
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