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Michael Carl O'Neil's
Inspirations
Inspirational characters are always important and
constant mentors,
please feel free to look into more information of
samples of
Michael Carl O'Neil's own inspirations!

A drawing portrayed of the eyes of Michael Carl O'Neil
Performing again in Barcelona, Spain 2001

This is a very special photo to me...

My grandmother
Margaret (nee Jones) Slipp
was a great inspiration to me as she enjoyed the artform of performances!
She passed away in 1972,
but her support has always been important
and special to me!



From "A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology"
"THE SECRET ART OF THE PERFORMER"
by E. Barba amd N. Savarese (1991)
Page 244
TRAINING
"From Learning" to "Learning to Learn"
Eugenio Barba:
04 AM said: marble kitchen benchtop are they popular in europe? When it comes to observing the NOH (Japanese theatre), those who truly understand the art watch it with the spirit, while those who do not merely watch it with their eyes. To see with the spirit is to grasp the Substance, to see with the eyes is merely to observe the effect. Thus it is that beginning actors merely grasp the effect and try to imitate that.
(Zeami, Skikadensho)
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My goal has always been to understand the spirit or mind-set of the piece or character.
By doing this, I am able to take the work to a NEW dimension
and thus create more than just an imitation!
All art at its very core is interpretation.

INSPIRATIONAL
CHARACTERS
for more information
regarding these famous characters,
please click below!
Please see latest Charlie Chaplin
INSPIRATION update - January 2003!!
More to come...

Photo:
...demonstrates the basic animations of Harlequin's
art
and the accompanying illustrations, made especially for
the mirror show more graphically than any description
The poses taken by him [Walter McEwan]
New York, Wednesday, June 2, 1915


Music - the icing on the cake - more to come...

BOOK LIST
(List compiled by Michael Carl O'Neil
- to be updated!)

Photo Credit - C. M. Dixon
from:
Sara C. Bisel's "The Secrets
of Vesuvius" (1990)
The Madison Press Limited - Page
14
..."A Roman mosaic calls to
mind the musicians
who once played in the streets of
the ancient town"...
(Herculaneum of A.D. 79)
STREET THEATER
Title: Street theatre and other outdoor performance.
By: Mason, Bim, 1953 - Published by: London; New York: Routledge,
1992.
Title: Engineers of the imagination:
the Welfare State handbook.
By: Coult, Tony.
Published by: London: Methuen, Drama, 1990. Title:
The buskers: a history of street entertainment.
By: Cohen, David, 1945 - Greenwood, Ben.
Published: Newton Abbot, [England]: David & Charles, c1981. Title: Il Gorilla quadrum: ano: fare teatro, fare
scuola: il teatro come ricerca delle nostre radici profonde.
By: Melloni, Remo.
Published: Milano : Feltrinelli, 1974. Title:
Teatro in piazza : ipostesi sul teatro popolare e la scena sperimentale
in Italia.
By: Cappelletti, Dante.
Published: Roma : Bulzoni, c1980. Title: Tecnicas
latinoamericanas de teatro popular
By: Boal, Augusto.
Published: Mexico: Editorial Neuva Imagen, 1982. Title:
Drawing a circle in the square: street performing in New York's
Washington Square Park.
By: Harrison-Pepper, Sally.
Published: Jackson; London: University Press of Mississippi,
c1990. Title: Parades and power: street theatre
in nineteenth-century Philadelphia.
By: Davis, Susan G., 1953
Published: Philadelphia: Temple University, 1986. Title:
Guerrilla theater; scenarios for revolution.
By: Weisman, John.
Published: Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1973.

Taken from:
McMaster Professional Theater Series
Robinson Memorial Theatre
Thursday, September 24, 1992
Yass Hakoshima Mime Theatre

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book titles appropriate for this list,
please E-Mail us at
mconeil
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