The Actor With a Thousand Faces

THE ACTOR WITH A THOUSAND FACES is a movement based guidebook, compendium, resource workbook, and practical manual for students, teachers, and theatre practitioners who are dedicated to the advancement of ensemble work. Beginning with the creation of a fundamental movement vocabulary, Olsen takes the reader through the basic stages of practical silhouettes, warm-ups, physical discoveries, rhythm games, and imagination based explorations that lead to the eventual acquisition of more advanced skills. These skills are the applied to group dynamics in unique ways that recapture the sacred and inspire renewal. Using movement, text, sound, masks, and materials, these exercises, developed from over a decade of experience and observation, are designed to instruct, provoke, and inspire participants to launch works that eventually transcend them. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.