Actor training / edited by Alison Hodge.

Previously published under title: Twentieth century acting training, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Stanislavsky's system: pathways for the actor / SHARON MARIE CARNICKE -- Meyerhold and Biomechanics / ROBERT LEACH -- Jacques Copeau: the quest for sincerity / JOHN RUDLIN -- Michael Chekhov on the technique of acting: "was Don Quixote true to life?" / FRANC CHAMBERLAIN -- Michel Saint-Denis: training the complete actor / JANE BALDWIN -- The Knebel technique: active analysis in practice / SHARON MARIE CARNICKE -- Brecht and actor training: on whose behalf do we act? / PETER THOMSON -- Joan Littlewood / CLIVE BARKER -- Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: Method acting / DAVID KRASNER -- Joseph Chaikin and aspects of actor training: possibilities rendered present / DORINDA HULTON -- Peter Brook: transparency and the invisible network / LORNA MARSHALL AND DAVID WILLIAMS -- Grotowski's vision of the actor: the search for contact / LISA WOLFORD -- Training for play, lightness and disobedience in the pedagogies of Jacques Lecoq, Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier / SIMON MURRAY -- Training with Eugenio Barba: acting principles, the pre-expressive and "personal temperature" / IAN WATSON -- Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil : -- Theatricalising history; the theatre as metaphor; the actor as signifier / HELEN E. RICHARDSON -- Wlodzimierz Staniewski : Gardzienice: the naturalised actor / ALISON HODGE -- Creating the moment: Anne Bogart, SITI Company and actor training / ROYD CLIMENHAGA -- Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed / FRANCES BABBAGE.