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| Title: | A Practice of Faith: Actors and Rehearsal (A Tragedy in One Act) |
| Authors: | Moore, Paul Rossmanith, Kate |
| Keywords: | actors rehearsal sociology of artistic practice |
| Issue Date: | 17-Jun-2008 |
| Abstract: | An Australian actor completes actor training, leaves drama school, and accepts low-skilled, casual employment while he begins auditioning for performance roles. Finally he lands a role in a theatre production. What does this 'landing a role' mean for him? What does it mean to win a job and become a legitimate player in the theatre scene? What does it mean to enter rehearsals—to be in the enviable position of rehearsing? Drawing on a sociological analysis of actors entering the industry, as Well as fieldwork studies of actors in rehearsal, this paper seeks to account for the place 'rehearsal' has in the life of a jobbing actor. Presented in the form of a playscript, it charts the story of Peter (a median actor), his girlfriend, and his agent, as Peter struggles to win, and eventually loses, a role in a theatre production. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2509 |
| ISSN: | 978-1-74210-012-8 |
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