In the Studio with Joyce Piven takes you directly inside the creative process of the renowned Piven Workshop led by Joyce and Byrne Piven.The Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago has nurtured theatre artists celebrated in the US; Ireland and Britain including Joan Cusack; John Cusack; Jeremy Piven; Aidan Quinn; Sarah Ruhl; Lili Taylor and Kate Walsh. Co-authors Joyce Piven and Susan Applebaum describe the Workshop techniques (developed and refined over forty years of theatrical training) as a virtual fly-on-the-wall experience; taking the reader inside the directors studio; classroom; and green room.Part One introduces the central principles of game work and the concept of encounter - finding the emotional experience at the heart of a set of given circumstances - and ends with a chapter on the role of story theatre as a bridge between games and play text.Part Two takes you into the classroom with Joyce Piven through fully-detailed transcripts of physical and vocal workshops on play; agreement; specificity; transformation and story theatre; accompanied by explanations and tips for teaching.The book ends with an alphabetical appendix of games taught by Byrne and Joyce Piven based on their work with Paul Sills and Viola Spolin; Etienne Decroux; Uta Hagen and Mira Rostova.A highly regarded guide and resource for actors; teachers; and directors; for anyone interested in the creative process of acting and actor training.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Tyred of Searching your OSHA CD? Take a Fish nChips break!By PamelaJCIn the 1980s a Safety director at the Motion Picture and Television Safety Comittees (Hollywood) office wrote to OSHA asking if an "eye wash" on hand could not substitute for Safety Glasses. In a published letter of interpretation the OSHA offices replied that this "wash" (indicating that the worker had already been hurt by a chemical before the corrective action would be taken) was NOT a substitute for protective lenses. Im certain this is only one of thousands of reasonsthat Production Safety issues needed to be published in the form of a training and reference textbook! This textbook emphasized logical steps that should be taken on any production to prevent safety violations; accidents; health risks and possible death. In that respect it is useful to an international audience of potential and working filmmakers. Whatever "Small" criticism I have of this 480 page text must be qualified with this statement: Somebody really needed to write a text on production safety for the film industry! This authors effort should be applauded; loudly! This is one h--- of a compilation of material about safety laws! BUT (big but); by targeting this specifically at the British and European audience Mr. Small missed a major marketing opportunity. By "targeting" I not only mean that this text lists a compilation of British and European Union laws related to different aspects of safety and filming; but also that he makes reference in this text to "cases" and accidents by name. The cases are named without explanation of the facts of that case. He assumes knowledge by the reader; probably from the British press who he quotes often. I personally dont read the British Press here in the States. With the monopolization of the film industry by the media we dont even hear that many reports about violations of safety on a film set unless they result in a death! Mr. Smalls grammar contains colloquialisms that are quaint but not appropriate for an instructional text. It was an error on the part of the Editors in allowing these to be left in this excellent training manual! In repeated instance Mr. Small spells tires as "tyres". The Editors were apparently ASleep at the wheel when reveiwing this text. I also found acronyms used repeatedly in sections of this text that were not in the acronym appendix. That is confusing and unclear. This text is a training and reference book; as such it should be held to a high standard of grammatical criticism; teaching communications to identify and prevent health and safety risks appears to be a goal of this texts author. In the U.S. (United States) our equivalent to many of the British laws are found in the O.S.H.A. (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) handbook which is available on CD ROM (ROM does not stand for Royal Ontario Museum). Robin Smalls text goes into incredible detail to enable his reader to recognize and prevent possible safety violations. It also contains often overlooked (see the example of the Safety Committee paragraph 1) but common sense thinking about Safety in a film/tv/video production. Its a 4 on a scale of 1-5; and as soon as I learn how to spel Ill write a book about why identifying all the safety risks is useless if youre not enpowered to fire violators; including chemically handicapped stars; and as one photographers wife called him; "pigs" who dont listen to knowledgeable persons of the opposite sex!