- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Methuen Drama; Reprint edition (25 Aug 1977)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0413453804
- ISBN-13: 978-0413453808
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The games described in this invaluable handbook are all designed to enable anyone involved in acting to develop their technique without inhibition or artificiality. As a professional actor, director and drama teacher, Clive Barker has developed his "theatre games" system over the years and proved its effectiveness for teaches, students and actors alike. "Clive Barker's book is more than just a guidebook of improvisational games for actors: it is, rather a comprehensive exploration of acting techniques" New York Theatre Review "Theatre Games is a massive contribution to the art of theatre...A bulging portfolio of credo, craft, advice and instruction, strapped tight with sound definition...It is dazzlingly astute and a thrilling read - quite unlike a text-book, rather a long, fascinating chat into the small hours" The Stage
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1 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A classic book on actor training
4 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
This is a book meant for someone who works actively with theatre (both professionals and amateurs). The focus of this book is how to use children games in actor training. The concept was new and unusual when Clive Barker developed it 30-40 years ago, but is now used by many actors and teachers. The book is full of practical exercises but present also a very valuable theoretical foundation for this kind of work. I read this book for the first time about 20 years ago, and it is still one of those books that I come back to and finds valuable information and inspiration from.
In this book Clive Barker introduces a concept of "Body Think" - a new concept at that time when he wrote this book, and a concept that is meant as a practical way to deal with the kind of non-logical-thinking that an actors has to work with. Since then people like Howard Gardner has introduced theories about 'Multiple Intelligence's' which has gained a general acceptance all over the world. Clive Barkers writings about the actors use of 'Body Think' gives additional information to what Howard Garner calls 'Spatial Intelligence' and ''Bodily- kinaesthetic Intelligence'. It can probably be very useful to read Clive Barkes book alongside Howard Gardners books (Frames of Mind, The Arts and Human Development, Multiple Intelligence - The Theory in Practice). Also Daniel Goleman's book on Emotional Intelligence might be a good companion.
Clive Barker's book is a very good book that presents theoretical concepts as well as practical methods that makes sense in the daily practical work of an actor. In many ways this book is much more useful than the famous books of Stanislavsky.
7 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Barker isn't Barker
20 July 1997
Format:Paperback
I haven't read this, sorry. But I wanted to stop anyone who thinks this might be Clive Barker, novelist. It isn't, trust me (I waited months for a copy of this book only to find out too late
4 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Drama training is drama training
7 Jan 1998
Format:Paperback
Now who's the clueless bonehead who orders a book called "... drama training" and thinks its a horror story. Jeez. Too much television.
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