Acting category: 934 books
Walking, Writing and Performance
Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and performance.The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside are...
Playwrights in Rehearsal
The Seduction of Company
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Playwrights in Rehearsal is an inside look at the writer's role in the creative process of bringing his or her words to life on stage. Susan Letzler Cole, granted rare access to some of the major playwrights of our time, recounts her participation in rehearsal with Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner and Suzan-Lori Parks, and others.
The Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
A Translation and Analysis of 30 Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
The Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala presents a translation and commentary of selected scenarios composed or collected by the actor-manager Flaminio Scala that were first published in 1611. Thirty of Scala's 50 scenarios are included, complete with a detailed scene-by-scene analysis that demonstrates...
The Divine Comic
The Cinema of Roberto Benigni
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita รจ bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor. Benigni has been a steady presence in Italian popular culture since the mid-1970s....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices.
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by Derek Jacobi
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
In each volume of the Shakespeare on Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes, recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. They discuss their character, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The...
Being a Dancer
Advice from Dancers and Choreographers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
How do I get a job as a dancer? Where and when should I train? How can I protect my body from injury? How do I become a choreographer?
These and many more such questions asked by young or aspiring dancers are answered in this book - the most revealing and instructive book yet on what it means...
by Samuell Benta
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
In the old days, actors went to auditions, waited for a phone to ring and saw if they got the part. That's the only perspective that actors and agents can see because they don't know what happens beyond that point. You want to build the following, a fan base, an audience you can guarantee...
The Immortal Marilyn
The Depiction of an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
From the late 1940s to the early '60s, Marilyn Monroe appeared in barely thirty movies, beginning with bit parts and moving on into supporting roles for such films as The Asphalt Jungle, All About Eve, and Clash by Night. She soon shot to international fame and gained prominent roles in a number of...
The Voice Exercise Book
A Guide to Healthy and Effective Voice Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Fall in love with your voice. Get to know how it works. You will soon feel how good it is to sound like you.
In The Voice Exercise Book, Jeannette Nelson - Head of Voice at the National Theatre - shares the voice exercises she uses with many of Britain's leading actors to help to keep their...
Dramatic Events
How to Run a Workshop for Theater, Education or Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Using the experience of authors Richard Hahlo and Peter Reynolds in a variety of educational, business and theater settings, Dramatic Events: How to Run a Workshop for Theater, Education or Business investigates the connection between practical theater work and drama theory, and its effect on the development and dynamic of any working group.
Jump Into Audition
It's a Yes!
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Make it a YES! With so much competition, JUMP INTO AUDITION is the must-have guide for your audition. You only get one chance to make a FIRST IMPRESSION so let it count! FULFILL your POTENTIAL! Learn the art of preparing for auditions, tips on appropriate dress and etiquette and how to CONQUER your...
Through the Body
A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
A step-by-step guide to Physical Theatre in both theory and practice - full of detailed exercises and inspiring ideas.
In Through the Body, based on twelve years of teaching physical theatre, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of certain key 20th-century...