Acting techniques Books

Creating Improvised Theatre: Tools, Techniques, and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation is a complete guide to improvised theatre for performers and instructors.This book provides a modern view of improvised theatre based on the rapid...

Este libro, titulado ""Historia De La Nueva Mexico V1-2; Memorial Que Fr. Juan De Santander; Mercurio Volante Con La Noticia (1900)"" fue escrito por Gaspar de Villagra. La obra consta de dos vol������menes y se centra en la historia de Nuevo M�����xico...

TIM COONEY'S LIFE READS MORE LIKE AN ADVENTURE STORY THAN A BIOGRAPHY.HOW HE WENT FROM HOMELESS TO BEING NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR IS DEFINITELY NOT THE USUAL PATH.ALONG THE WAY THERE WERE 8 MORE NOMINATIONS FOR VARIOUS AWARDS, ELEPHANTS AND TIGERS,...

"The book is a wonderful guide to an actor building a mind. Simple yet very complete." -- Jamie Lee Curtis "I now understand what makes [Rich] the great actor that he is. He transcends technique, re-digesting and transforming life experience,...

Le livre ""Histoire Anecdotique Des Theatres De Paris V1: 1 Janvier A 31 Mars 1896"" est �����crit par Jean Raphanel et publi����� en 1896. C'est un livre qui relate l'histoire des th����������tres de Paris pour la p�����riode allant du 1er janvier au 31...

Acting for the Stage is a highly accessible guide to the business of theater acting, written for those interested in pursuing acting as a profession. This book is a collection of essays by and interviews with talented artists and businesspeople who have...

How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process?Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop. RADA's Brigid Panet has distilled nearly 60...

Looking for material to liven up your next party, school play, or public gathering? Look no further than The Dramatic Reciter! This comprehensive collection includes a wide variety of monologues, dialogues, and plays specially selected for their...

Graham, a middle-aged bachelor, emotionally retarded and chronically dependent on his mother, finds life difficult enough at the best of times. When Mother meets an old flame and seems set to marry him, however, Graham's old insecurities rear their ugly...

"You like movies because you're one of life's great watchers." So says Woody Allen's irked, soon-to-be-ex-wife in Play It Again, Sam, obviously having had enough of his sedentary lifestyle. Hmm, I think she would have left me, too. But, hey, do a...

Acting is living and behaving truthfully and fully under imaginary circumstances. But why is "truthfully" and "fully" so hard for us? Why is it so difficult to be in the moment with our art and in our lives? At some point, likely in your youth, you...

This collection of contemporary monologues features familiar, well-established authors who voice traditional views on current issues and a host of new, contemporary authors who offer fresh, original insights on similar topics. The book is divided into...

39 experimentados performancistas, profesores y teóricos, procedentes de 17 países nos muestran sus diversas maneras de transmitir la fuente generativa de la creatividad en la performance. 370 páginas llenas de ideas, puntos de vista, metodologías,...

This is a book about long-form improv, the art of making up comedy scenes as you go (meaning no script) on a stage. Improv Nonsense was a critically acclaimed blog about long-form improv, written by Will Hines, a teacher and performer from the...

On a warm evening a man is crying Howl, howl, howl as he carries in his arms the body of a young woman. This isn't urban violence, it's Gorilla Rep's production of King Lear. There are no sets. The action uses available space: a parking lot, a pedestrian...

This is a unique collection of original contemporary dramatic and comedic monologues for all types of actors. Along with tips and suggestions on how to audition effectively, these true-to-life creative performance monologues cover a wide range of...

The Theatrical Firearms Handbook is a start-to-finish guide to staging firearms violence for theatrical or cinematic productions, including props selection, backstage protocol, safe staging, tactical firearms techniques for actors, and more. It provides...

Yevgeny Vakhtangov was a pioneering theatre artist who married Stanislavski's demands for inner truth with a singular imaginative vision. Directly and indirectly, he is responsible for the making of our contemporary theatre: that is Andrei Malaev-Babel's...

Movie Acting: The Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting. Combining classic and recent essays, it examines key issues such as: What constitutes film acting?  How is film acting different...

The Art of Clowning is the first book on clowning technique and offers a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their "inner clown." This fun and accessible guide expands on theories and exercises to help students...

Performing on TV commercials is bread and butter for actors. It not only helps them pay the rent while striving for recognition, frequently it enables them to break into film, television and theater. Plus, acting in commercials can be a rewarding and...

This book is an introduction to the basics of stage combat in the area of unarmed combat. It holds enough information to give students an understanding of the subject, as well as how to perform some of the more simple "tricks of the trade." The...

The Five Approaches to Acting Series by David Kaplan is a comprehensive acting approach that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and advanced actors. David Kaplan's The Five Approaches to Acting Series contains his five approaches to...

The ONLY AUTHORIZED Biography, blessed by her son, Don Gallery.ENDORSEMENTS: Actress Ann B. Davis ~ Hometown Historian (Parsons, KS) ~Co-Founders of the Gale Storm Appreciation Society, Edd Bayes & Ron BakerTHE MOST COMPLETE CAREER LISTING ANYWHERE ~...

Are you new to this business of acting and not really sure if you're doing the right things to start your career? Or maybe you don't really know where to begin? Or do you just simply want more out of your acting career?If any of those things are true for...

In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years...

With its inspirational foreword, this book is a great reminder to parents that each child is very special, and that we have an obligation to cultivate the innate gifts of our children, instead of simply hoping the public school system will yield a...

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence - and demonstrates the significance of the...

Using Open Scenes as a "way in" to scripted material, this book establishes a foundational actor training methodology that can be applied to the performance of film or television acting, commercials, and theatrical realism. Unlike other methodologies,...

An Actor's Research: Investigating Choices for Practice and Performance presents an accessible and highly practical guide to the research approaches required of the actor. It aims to establish the precision and rigour of the actor's craft that is...

This book is the synthesis of interviews conducted with Sydney H. Spayde, the late award-winning veteran theatrical director of over 340 plays and founder of several theatres around the country. Spayde, who speaks from a deep well of experience and from...

With The Hemingway Monologues Brian Gordon Sinclair gives us an intimate insight into the circumstances that shaped the famed author's life and inspired him in his writing. The Lost Generation is the second in this seven-play series that traces...

Demystify the audition process and land your dream role with this revolutionary book on acting!Actor, director, and world-renowned acting coach Les Chantery lays out an approach for the auditioning actor that has been heralded as "a revelation...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...