The Drama Bookclub: Recent Episodes
Ian Mason
Welcome, you're listening to The Drama Bookclub. My name's Ian Mason, I'm a Chicago based actor who's studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts as well as the Chicago College of Performing Arts and I'm here to talk theatre with all of you beautiful people. Specifically, theatre books. Every other week, we'll dive deep into a range of books covering everything in the theatrical world. And without further ado, let's get started.
Welcome to the final episode of The Drama Bookclub Season 1. We are finishing up our talks on The Fervent Years by Harold Clurman. Season two will be coming out in one month from the release of this episode. I can't wait to start it up! Enjoy!
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It is the final book for Season one of The Drama Bookclub!! I am so excited to share this book with all of you. Somehow, this random book I found out of nowhere has become the most challenging and fun book so far of the whole season. By telling the story of the Group Theatre it has drama, advice, and history that provides millions of talking points. Perfect for the podcast.
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How to Read a Play outlines various tools that an actor or director can use to breakdown their process of reading and analyzing plays. Along with this, the book also dives into how to deal with plays that don't have scripts. What does that mean for the theatre? What is a play? How should we be making plays? All are questions we dive into this time on The Drama Bookclub.
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The Moving Body looks at Jacques Lecoq, a french acting teacher who focused mainly on the physical elements of acting. We discuss his school's teachings as well as his philosophies on how to teach acting and how to be an observer of the world. A shoutout to the Evan Mitchell at the Governor's School of North Carolina for first recommending this book to me.
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The School of Doing chronicles some of the great director Gerald Freedman's philosophies and ideas on theatre. We talk largely in this podcast about Gerald the director and Gerald the teacher. I am very thankful to have gotten to meet this man. Thank you for listening.
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The Actor's Life by Jenna Fischer is an amazingly useful handbook for the modern-day actor. She hilariously dives into all of the tips and tricks necessary to be an actor today. Along with that, she also talks in-depth as to some of the life philosophy an actor should have to survive. The latter is what I mostly talk about in this episode of The Drama Bookclub. I hope you enjoy it!
(Shoutout to Quinn Nehr for recommending this book to me)
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This book was recommended to me by a close friend who is also an actor. I couldn't have been happier with her recommendation. This book inspired me as Eleonora Duse sounds like a fascinating and brilliant actress. I hope you enjoy.
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TheDramaBookclub@gmail.com
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Hello! This episode hopefully serves as an introduction not only to Season One but to the podcast as a whole.
If you'd like to reach out to me with any book recommendations or commentary as a whole feel free to email me at:
TheDramaBookclub@gmail.com