Acting category: 934 books

Keith Johnstone entered the Royal Court Theatre as a new playwright in 1956: a decade later he emerged as a groundbreaking director and teacher of improvisation. His decisive book Impro (1979), described Johnstone's unique system of training: weaving together theories and techniques to encourage spontaneous,...

The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for practitioners, it provides: *a guide to the physical, vocal and improvisational dynamics drawn from world performance styles *a new vocabulary with which...

This inspirational voice-over guide will teach you how to take control of your career with the power of positive thinking. Rodney Saulsberry shares his methods to turn fear and self-doubt into confidence and success. Plus, get advice from many of the top voice-over performers in the business that...

ACT I.   SCENE. DOUGLAS CATTERMOLE'S apartments at MRS. STEAD'S. Comfortable but not luxurious. Doors, R. I E. and L. I E. Window practicable, R. C. fireplace, L. Sofa, R. c. Table with writing materials and books, L. C. Sideboard with liqueurs. Cigars,...

This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints of their subject areas by thinking about integrated approaches to the soundtrack. As the boundaries between scoring and sound design in contemporary...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nobody answers the question, “What would you like to be when you grow up?” with “A Spanish Voiceover Artist in London”. When Pilar first arrived in the UK, she didn’t even know such a profession existed. And yet, it’s been the one constant job in her mosaic career.  In this...

Fiona Shaw discusses playing Katherine in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles. In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes of a landmark Shakespearean...

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 argument in this, the first English-language...

El trabajo del actor sobre su papel continúa y cierra el ciclo iniciado con los otros dos libros de pedagogía teatral de Stanislavski. Los conceptos y argumentaciones expuestos de forma genérica en los volúmenes anteriores se concretan aquí en casos prácticos referidos a tres obras que dirigió...

Playing Sherlock Holmes contains three verbatim interviews - with John Wood, Robert Stephens and Christopher Lee - about their very different experiences of appearing as Holmes on stage and screen. The interviews were conducted in 1974. At the time, John Wood was appearing on stage in an acclaimed...

El conmovedor diario de Carrie Fisher sobre lo que sucedió dentro y fuera del rodaje de La Guerra de las Galaxias. Cuando Carrie Fisher redescubrió los diarios que había escrito durante el rodaje de La Guerra de las Galaxias, la primera película de la trilogía Star Wars, le asombró descubrir...

Arthur Seymour, the writer, performer, editor and producer of the short, comical film 'As I See It' has embraced the concept 'poetry in motion'. Arthur continues to dazzle his fans with thought provoking and entertaining videos, It remains his passion and he pursues...

Congé amiable,inédit.1903. PERSONNAGES : JEANNE, 20 à 30 ans MARCELIN, 30 à 35 ans M. GAIFRE, 50 ans La scène représente un petit salon d'une élégance modeste. Un téléphone. JEANNE est seule en costume de voyage. JEANNE Allons...