The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience

by Tina Packer, Helen Epstein

Overview

Insights and wisdom from one of America's leading Shakespearean actors and theatrical trainers on how to explore and utilize Shakespeare's work to bring your innate acting talent to surface. When each word becomes an experience, you become a better actor.

For the story of how Tina Packer came to the United States and started Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, read Tina Packer Builds A Theater, also a Nook book.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013716346
Publisher:	Plunkett Lake Press
Publication date:	01/04/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	28 KB

About the Author

Helen Epstein is the author of six books of literary non-fiction including the two memoirs Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History and the biography Joe Papp: An American Life. All three books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She is also the translator from the Czech of Acting in Terezin by Vlasta Schonova and the late Heda Margolius Kovaly's classic memoir Under A Cruel Star: A LIfe in Prague 1941-1968.

Her Nook books include Children of the Holocaust; Music Talks: The Lives of Classical Musicians; Joe Papp; Tina Packer Builds a Theater; Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian; Memoir; A Living Will; and Ice Cream Man (with Gus Rancatore).

Born in Prague in 1947, Helen grew up in New York City, where she attended and graduated from Hunter College High School (1965). She became a journalist after the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia of 1968 when her personal account was published in the Jerusalem Post.

In 1971, Helen graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and began freelancing for diverse publications including the New York Times where her first Magazine cover story on freelance musician Ed Birdwell ran in 1974. Her profiles of legendary musicians such as Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein and Yo-Yo Ma are collected in Music Talks.

She began teaching journalism at New York University in 1974 and became the first woman in the journalism department to be awarded tenure. In 1986, she left NYU to move to the Boston area. She has an active speaking career and has lectured at a wide variety of venues including universities in Europe and North and South America; health organizations; high schools; synagogues, libraries and churches; the United States Military Academy at West Point; the Embassy of the Czech Republic and the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The mother of two grown sons, Helen shuttles between the Berkshires and the Boston area with her husband and blogs about the arts for the New England cultural website The Arts Fuse.

Tina Packer grew up in Nottingham, England, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and emigrated to the United States in 1972. With Kristin Linklater and Dennis Krausnick, she developed her own company, Shakespeare & Company, in Edith Wharton’s abandoned mansion in Lenox, Massachusetts.