A computer scientist collaborates with a stage director to analyze and machine-decode non- verbal communication. Shrikanth Narayanan of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Sharon Carnicke of the USC School of Theatre have captured interactions in which actors express emotion in gesture, intonation, and movement. Narayanan says...
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In March 2017 Sharon Marie Carnicke sat down with Dean David Bridel of the USC School of Theatre to discuss Chekhov’s plays, his sense of humor, and his most persistent themes. The podcast of her interview with Dean Bridel was recorded to mark the School’s...
With the release of Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002), motion capture photography became a viable venue for acting when a human actor in his prime, Andy Serkis, was cast to play the character of Gollum—a five hundred year-old creature with a small,...
For the nearly six decades of Elizabeth Taylor’s career, critics and scholars preferred to write about her, rather than her acting. Much ink was spilled on her physical beauty, her striking violet eyes, her fluctuations in weight, her eight marriages, her extravagant jewelry, her conversion...
The Norwegian National Academy of Arts invited me to direct a production of any Anton Chekhov play I wanted, using Active Analysis — a rehearsal technique developed by Stanislavsky, but little known outside Russia. How could I resist! First, I love Chekhov. “The pens scratch, the...
