The Alexander Technique For Actors / Kelly McEvenue.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Patsy Rodenburg -- An Introduction to: The Alexander Technique for Actors -- Introduction -- F. M. Alexander's Story -- Part 1: The Alexander Technique in the Theatre -- How the Alexander Technique Became My Vocation -- The Alexander Teacher's Role in the Production of a Play -- The Principles of the Alexander Technique -- 1. Recognition of Habit -- 2. Inhibition -- Pausing for an Instant to Arrest a Habit -- 3. The 'Primary Control' -- 4. Giving Direction -- Learning to Use Your Thinking to Make a Change

5. 'Feelings' May Give Unreliable Feedback -- 6. End-gaining -- 7. Non-doing -- 'Less is More' -- The Anatomy Lesson -- The Actor Prepares -- Warming Up -- Preparing the Actor for Rehearsal or Performance -- Warm-up Exercises -- 1. Stretching on the Mat -- Lying on the Back in the Semi-supine Position -- 2. Engaging the Adominal Wall and the Back Muscles. -- 3. A Shoulder Stretch -- 4. Getting Up Off the Floor -- 5. Finding Balance or 'Centre' -- 6. Arm Stretching -- 7. Undulating Through Centre -- 8. Find the Hip Joint -- 9. The Rolling-over Exercise -- 10. Balancing into Walking

11. An Open-leg Stretch -- Part 2: Putting the Alexander Technique to Work -- Partner Work -- Moving in Relationship -- Partner Work and Spatial Awareness Exercises -- 1. Spatial Awareness Exercises -- 2. Endowment -- Observing the Other -- 3. Stage 2 of Spatial Awareness -- 4. Contact Partner Work -- 5. Centrifugal Force and Opposition Exercises -- 6. A Mirroring Exercise -- 7. Status Work -- Playing the High and the Low Brows -- 8. Tableau Exercise -- Learning to Survive a 'Freeze' -- The Table Work and the Alexander Technique -- Lesson One -- Lesson Two

Part 3: Alexander Technique and Voice Work -- 1. Alexander's Discovery -- 2. Voice Work and the Alexander Technique -- 3. Musical Theatre -- 4. Opera Singing and the Alexander Technique -- 5. The Whispered 'Ah' Exercise -- Part 4: The Alexander Technique and Acting Challenges -- Relevance of the Alexander Technique to Acting -- 1. The Actor and Fitness -- 2. Character Work and the Alexander Technique -- 3. Playing Another Gender -- from the 'Trouser Role' to the Drag Act -- 4. Imitation -- Mirroring -- 5. The Kissing Class -- 6. Nudity -- 7. Alexander with Costumes, Wigs and Period Accoutrements

8. Mask Work -- 9. The Zoo Project -- An Animal Study -- 10. The Lion King -- 11. An Elizabethan Bear -- 12. The Injured Actor -- 13. Understudies -- 14. The Ageing Actor -- 15. Falling and Fainting On Stage -- 16. Drunkenness -- 17. Martial Arts and the Alexander Technique -- The Stage -- How the Actor Adapts to Playing the Space -- 1. The Proscenium-arch Stage -- 2. The Raked Stage -- 3. The Thrust Stage -- 4. Theatre In the Round -- 5. Outdoor Theatre -- Epilogue -- Addresses -- eCopyright