Part I Acting: In Person
1 Centering: Finding a state of heightened awareness
2 Sensing: Becoming more aware of the senses
3 Focusing
4 Freeing: Releasing tension
5 Speaking: Using language clearly and intelligently
6 Feeling and doing
7 Synthesising Skills: Preparing a performance
8 Playbuilding: Devising and structuring original ideas into performance
Part II Acting: In Style
9 Greek, Roman and Medieval drama
10 Commedia Dell’Arte
11 Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre
12 Seventeenth-century French Neoclassicism
13 Restoration comedy
14 Realism and Naturalism
15 Early twentieth-century theatre: Symbolism to Dada
16 Brecht: Epic style and Didacticism
17 Theatre of the absurd
18 Eclectic: Mixing the styles
Part III Australian drama
19 Early Australian drama
20 Heros, Heroines and harlequins (1851–1914)
21 The City or the bush: 1915–1950
22 Initiative and innovation: 1951–2002
An introduction to the history and development of Australian theatre, with suggestions for improvisation and playbuilding exercises based on relevant periods
Acting in style exercises extended to include improvisation and playbuilding exercises and selections from Australian plays
Acting in person exercises supplemented with extra improvisation activities
Extended coverage of melodrama
Glossary which includes syllabus terminology
Many new photographs – of Australian productions