Shepard, Richmond (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.74.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. An illustrated workbook, illustrated by E. M. Louise Sandoval, Drama Book Specialists, NY, 1971, 2nd edition, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, orange hb, 8.75x11, VG/no dj, bumped bottom front corner, tad scuffed head/heel of spine, owners bookplate to ffep, pgs bright and clean, 142pp, DRA005390CARP, Designed for classroom or individual use - 30 lessons and short history of mime in the US - exercises, new material and hints on performance.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Books front and back cover has some light rubbing and light gray marks, otherwise book is in very good condition, pages are clean and covers are bright, binding is great, overall a very nice copy.

Condition: Good. 1972. No Edition Remarks. 142 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with black and white illustrated plates throughout. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First British Edition. Lean, foxing, light bumps, brief pencil marginalia, dog-ears, and jacket with rubbing, small stains, large chips and creases, small tears, publisher price sticker on the front flap. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 1972. Vision. First. Hard Cover. Book- VG, orange titles on front board and spine, orange boards. 11x8.5. 143pp. Many b/w illus by E. M. Louise Sandoval.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 8.6 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. An Ex-Library Hardback with dust jacket. Officially withdrawn with usual library stamps and markings. All illustrations free from library stamps. Good clear text and binding fine. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 46C*.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. E. M Louise Sandoval (illustrator). Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. [10], 142, [4] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. No DJ present. Includes What is mine about?, a brief history of mine, warning and thirty lessons (chapters), Teaching Plan, Classic Mime Makeup, and A Brief History of ME. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads Nov-- '72 To Rhonda--girl of mystery--with love from Richmond. Richmond Shepard (24 April 1929 - 2 July 2019) was an American writer, director, producer and mime with a 50-year history in entertainment. He was one of the oldest living working mimes in show business. He built, owned and operated his own theaters in Los Angeles on Theatre Row where he produced over 30 shows. He moved to New York and worked as a theatre and film critic for WNEW, conceived and directed the off-Broadway show Noo Yawk Tawk at The Village Gate for three years. He traveled across the world performing with mime troupes and performs improvisational comedy in various clubs around NYC. Richmond Shepard's last role was when he played the "Sandman" in Fuzz on the Lens Productions fantasy comedy Abnormal Attraction starring Malcolm McDowell, Bruce Davison, Leslie Easterbrook, and Gilbert Gottfried which was released in 2019. Shepard previously owned The Writer Act Repertoire, an Off-Broadway theatre located at the original venue of The Vineyard Theater. Notable performances include the world premiere of Last Chance Romance by Sam Bobrick (2011) and a staging of the comedy, Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon (2012). A mime artist or just mime is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. Miming involves acting out a story through body motions, without the use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a character in a film or skit without sound. Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by Commedia dell'arte and Japanese Noh theatre, used masks in the training of his actors. His pupil Étienne Decroux was highly influenced by this, started exploring and developing the possibilities of mime, and developed corporeal mime into a highly sculptural form, taking it outside the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theatre with his training methods. As a result of this, the practice of mime has been included in the Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in France since 2017. Before the work of Étienne Decroux there was no major treatise on the art of mime, and so any recreation of mime as performed prior to the twentieth century is largely conjecture, based on interpretation of diverse sources. However, the twentieth century also brought a new medium into widespread usage: the motion picture. The restrictions of early motion picture technology meant that stories had to be told with minimal dialogue, which was largely restricted to intertitles. This often demanded a highly stylized form of physical acting largely derived from the stage. Thus, mime played an important role in films prior to advent of talkies (films with sound or speech). Silent film comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton learned the craft of mime in the theatre, but through film, they would have a profound influence on mimes working in live theatre decades after their deaths. Indeed, Chaplin may be the best-documented mime in history. Harpo Marx, of the Marx Brothers comedy team, continued the mime tradition in the sound film era, his silent persona working in counterpoint to the verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho and Chico. The famous French comedian, writer, and director Jacques Tati achieved his initial popularity working as a mime, and indeed his later films had only minimal dialogue, relying instead on many subtle expertly choreographed visual gags. Tati, like Chaplin before him, would mime out the movements of every single character in his films and ask his actors to repeat them. Mime has been performed on stage, with Marcel Marceau and his character "Bip" being the most famous. Mime is also a popular art form in street theatre and busking. Traditionally, these sorts of performances involve the actor/actress wearing tight black and white clothing with white facial makeup. However, contemporary mimes often perform without whiteface. Similarly, while traditional mimes have been completely silent, contemporary mimes, while refraining from speaking, sometimes employ vocal sounds when they perform. Mime acts are often comical, but some can be very serious. Absent from Shepard's work are the two most famous quotations from Marcel Marceau: 1) " ?" and 2) " ?". It has also been reported that Richmond Shepard authored the 'tag-line' that "A Mime is a terrible thing to waste." Second Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sandoval, E. M. Louise (illustrator). [12], 142, [6] p.; 29 cm. Illustrations, Portraits. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Short inscription on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. The author was considered by many to be America's foremost mime of his generation. He did mime training under Marcel Marceau in Paris. He directed his own mime troupe and had numerous television appearances. Richmond Shepard (24 April 1929 - 2 July 2019) was an American writer, director, producer and mime with a 50-year history in entertainment. He was one of the oldest living working mimes in show business. He built, owned and operated his own theaters in Los Angeles on Theatre Row where he produced over 30 shows. He moved to New York and worked as a theatre and film critic for WNEW, conceived and directed the off-Broadway show Noo Yawk Tawk at The Village Gate for three years. He traveled across the world performing with mime troupes and performs improvisational comedy in various clubs around NYC. Richmond Shepard's last role was when he played the "Sandman" in Fuzz on the Lens Productions fantasy comedy Abnormal Attraction starring Malcolm McDowell, Bruce Davison, Leslie Easterbrook, and Gilbert Gottfried which was released in 2019. Shepard previously owned The Writer Act Repertoire, an Off-Broadway theatre located at the original venue of The Vineyard Theater. Notable performances include the world premiere of Last Chance Romance by Sam Bobrick (2011) and a staging of the comedy, Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon (2012). A mime artist or just mime is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. Miming involves acting out a story through body motions, without the use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a character in a film or skit without sound. Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by Commedia dell'arte and Japanese Noh theatre, used masks in the training of his actors. His pupil Étienne Decroux was highly influenced by this, started exploring and developing the possibilities of mime, and developed corporeal mime into a highly sculptural form, taking it outside the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theatre with his training methods. As a result of this, the practice of mime has been included in the Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in France since 2017. Before the work of Étienne Decroux there was no major treatise on the art of mime, and so any recreation of mime as performed prior to the twentieth century is largely conjecture, based on interpretation of diverse sources. However, the twentieth century also brought a new medium into widespread usage: the motion picture. The restrictions of early motion picture technology meant that stories had to be told with minimal dialogue, which was largely restricted to intertitles. This often demanded a highly stylized form of physical acting largely derived from the stage. Thus, mime played an important role in films prior to advent of talkies (films with sound or speech). Silent film comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton learned the craft of mime in the theatre, but through film, they would have a profound influence on mimes working in live theatre decades after their deaths. Indeed, Chaplin may be the best-documented mime in history. Harpo Marx, of the Marx Brothers comedy team, continued the mime tradition in the sound film era, his silent persona working in counterpoint to the verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho and Chico. The famous French comedian, writer, and director Jacques Tati achieved his initial popularity working as a mime, and indeed his later films had only minimal dialogue, relying instead on many subtle expertly choreographed visual gags. Tati, like Chaplin before him, would mime out the movements of every single character in his films and ask his actors to repeat them. Mime has been performed on stage, with Marcel Marceau and his character "Bip" being the most famous. Mime is also a popular art form in street theatre and busking. Traditionally, these sorts of performances involve the actor/actress wearing tight black and white clothing with white facial makeup. However, contemporary mimes often perform without whiteface. Similarly, while traditional mimes have been completely silent, contemporary mimes, while refraining from speaking, sometimes employ vocal sounds when they perform. Mime acts are often comical, but some can be very serious. Absent from Shepard's work are the two most famous quotations from Marcel Marceau: 1) " ?" and 2) " ?". It has also been reported that Richmond Shepard authored the 'tag-line' that "A Mime is a terrible thing to waste." First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.

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