In the Teaching Actors book; the author discusses a language for actor training and argues that there is a need to re-assess not only how actors should be trained but also how teachers of acting should be trained. In this book; the author represents several topics that relate to current training practices in which he sets out to promote discussion and scholarship. Dr. Prior contextualizes actor training past and present; its theory and practice; the notion of vocational expertise and the organization of acting courses in drama schools. He explains the discussion by introducing case studies relating to selected contemporary trainers. Importantly; he contrasts best practice in the vocational training of actors in drama schools with that found in some academically based university drama courses that seek to train actors without the support of proportional technical training. This book questions current modes of actor training relating to the synergy of performance techniques and skills. A key question for the trainer is ndash; what kind of actor will appear at graduation and how they will stand themselves in the market place? The reader is asked to consider if current practices in training serve the actor and ultimately the industry. How does course and their content respond to changes in employment opportunities for actors; both at the onset and also in their professional lives?.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Gifg for son-in-lawBy Helen C. FeldmanAll I can tell you is what my son-in-law told me. The book was aChristmas gift for him. He is in the business of solar power andthis was the book he needed for his work. After opening it andlooking through it; he said it was exactly what he needed.It got here in a timely mannor and I was very pleased with theservice.Thanks.21 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Very DisappointedBy KWGAZThe book is embarassing. I was looking for a reference text to update my knowledge of solar engineering; and what I got was a confusing conglomeration of project descriptions; uninformative; shallow system descriptions; vendor data and pictures; green politics; and a lot of filler. The filler turned me off within minutes of cracking the book. Things like 25 plus pages of lat long data for cities around the world; and lists of sustainable energy suppliers and consultants (that may have been useful when the book was published; but decays exponentially with time since.) The author presents facts that are nothing but erroneous hyperbole representing political opinions rather than engineering concepts or application. Throughout the book; efficiency is a concept that no longer is mathematically or physically defined consistently. Thermal plants are inefficient because they obey the 2nd law (34%); but solar conversion efficiencies are not an issue (rarely approaching 20%)Illustrations are simplistic; photographs are more artistic than technically illustrative. There are dozens of illustrations of how to bolt metal together or to roofs - none of which are useful. Entire sections appear to have been written for and lifted from gee-whiz pamphlets or displays rather than an engineering reference book; things like information on half-flush lavatories and landscaping (pg 201) and museum displays and software to generate them (pg 78).Look elsewhere for technically useful information. The net and a search engine will provide much more useful and current information. Luckily I still have my solar engineering course notes from the late 70s and because they provide much more useful information than this ...Engineers Complete Design Resource. Hopefully there is a good book out there for me; but this one isnt it.
