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Author :Bruce Miller Publisher :McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ISBN 13 :9780767406055 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis The Actor as Storyteller: An Introduction to Acting by : Bruce Miller
Download or read book The Actor as Storyteller: An Introduction to Acting written by Bruce Miller and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 1999-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory acting text emphasizes the actor's responsibility to tell the story of the play. Through an engaging presentation of anecdotes and techniques, including more than 100 exercises, this text teaches beginning actors their craft as it casts them in the role of storytellers in service of the script. A complete play, Rules of Love, by Joe Pintauro, is included.
Book Synopsis Acting and Theatre by : Cheryl Evans
Download or read book Acting and Theatre written by Cheryl Evans and published by Usborne Pub Limited. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how actors train for the stage, and looks at set design, props, costumes, lighting, sound, rehearsal, film acting, and the history of Western theater.
Download or read book Acting written by Paul Kassel and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting: An Introduction to the Art and Craft of Playing discusses both the theory and practice of acting while placing the actor center stage as the crucial artist in the theatre. This text examines the underlying issues of acting and describes potential approaches to meet these challenges. Practical, experiential examples of applying the vocabulary are provided, but the book is not overloaded with exercises. The text identifies and clearly states the four fundamental actions and four basic tasks that form the basis for acting, focusing the student's energy for playing physically, vocally, imaginatively, and emotionally. Topically organized chapters examine the underlying processes and theories of the acting process through an open and descriptive approach and provide clear and concrete exercises to facilitate student development and understanding. Features Provides a descriptive rather than prescriptive approach to the acting process, helping students develop and explore their understanding. Features two intermissions, "The Theatrical Illusion" and "A Warm-up, " at the conclusion of Part Two, providing a theoretical and practical summary that prepares students for working on the stage. Includes practical, experiential exercises throughout to facilitate students' development of skills and understanding of how the acting process works. Provides analytical tools-such as outlines for text analysis, structural analysis (play and scene structure), and character analysis-to help students feel empowered to make their own choices regarding how, with what kind of material, and with whom they may work. Examines the role of emotion in the acting process, providing an effective and concrete discussion of how to utilize natural feelings that may arise in the process and of the controversies surrounding some common ideas in the field. Includes references to Web-based and traditional text resources throughout the book to support and expand on the ideas and exercises in each chapter and to help students further explore each topic. Praise for Acting Clearly, this writer is crafted and knows the "work." Beautifully realized, and extremely useable. . . . -George Maguire, Solano Community College I like how simple, readable, and friendly the author seems. . . . So many acting books seem to draw attention to the author or system of learning. This text puts the emphasis on acting and performers. -Marc Powers, University of South Florida
Book Synopsis The Keys to Acting by : Hugh O'gorman
Download or read book The Keys to Acting written by Hugh O'gorman and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Robert Cohen Publisher :McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages ISBN 13 : Total Pages :288 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Acting One written by Robert Cohen and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful for teaching beginning acting, this text contains twenty-eight lessons based on experiential exercises. It covers basic skills, such as talking, listening, tactical interplay, physicalizing, building scenes, and making good choices.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Acting by : Stanley Kahan
Download or read book Introduction to Acting written by Stanley Kahan and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long a favorite of those teachers and students who prefer a clear, uncluttered, straightforward, and non-dogmatic approach to beginning acting, this text is aimed at the neophyte acting student or the general education/liberal arts student who may only take one class in this subject. Its flexible organization allows the teacher to assign the chapters as they appear in the text or in any sequence the individual instructor prefers. Laced with photographs, drawings, theatrical anecdotes, trivia, and quotations that make the material come alive with particular verve, this volume offers not only solid, practical advice but also provides a number of short scenes from important plays and exercises through which the students can practice their craft" -- Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Acting by : Stanley Kahan
Download or read book Introduction to Acting written by Stanley Kahan and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Introduction to Acting is a completely revised version of the text that was in general use for almost two decades. It includes significant material and exercises from An Actor's Workbook, which was also extensively used up to a few years ago. As was true of the original edition, first published in 1962, it is designed to serve the needs of the beginning student in acting. As then, it is intended as a textbook for college acting classes and the working actor in community and amateur theatre.--Preface.
Download or read book Acting in Film written by Michael Caine and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This revised and expanded edition features great photos, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more. "Remarkable material ... A treasure ... I'm not going to be looking at performances quite the same way ... FASCINATING!" Gene Siskel
Book Synopsis Sanford Meisner on Acting by : Sanford Meisner
Download or read book Sanford Meisner on Acting written by Sanford Meisner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential reading for beginning and professional actors alike. Throughout these pages Meisner is a delight—always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges. With an introduction by Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa and Tootsie, who worked with Meisner for five years. "This book should be read by anyone who wants to act or even appreciate what acting involves. Like Meisner's way of teaching, it is the straight goods."—Arthur Miller "If there is a key to good acting, this one is it, above all others. Actors, young and not so young, will find inspiration and excitement in this book."—Gregory Peck
Book Synopsis An Actor's Companion by : Seth Barrish
Download or read book An Actor's Companion written by Seth Barrish and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point was largely misguided . . . but I now had a great, talented, dedicated teacher who generously wanted to share his tools with everyone. There is muscularity, not to mention wisdom and truth to Seth's techniques. He is a wonderful teacher, and I know that having him as my first guide is one of the luckiest things to have happened to me in my career and life. And when I can't get back to class with him, I am so grateful I have this book to turn to."—Anne Hathaway "This book is truly unlike anything else I know—these pieces are haikus on specific elements of performance and character building."—Philip Himberg, executive director, Sundance Theatre Institute A collection of practical acting tips, tools, and exercises, An Actor's Companion is ideal for both the seasoned professionals and actors-in-training. The tips—all simple, direct, and useful—are easy to understand and even easier to apply, in both rehearsal and in performance. Seth Barrish is an actor, teacher, and the co-artistic director of The Barrow Group in New York City. In his thirty-year career, he has directed the award-winning shows My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Solo Show), Sleepwalk With Me (Nightlife Award for Outstanding Comedian in a Major Performance), The Tricky Part (Obie Award, Drama Desk nominations for Best Play and Best Solo Show), Pentecost (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), Old Wicked Songs (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Garland Award for Best Direction), and Good (Straw Hat Award for Best Direction), among dozens of others.
Book Synopsis Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique by : Sinéad Rushe
Download or read book Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique written by Sinéad Rushe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinéad Rushe's book provides a complete overview of the whole method, and includes illuminating explanations of its principles, as well as a wide range of practical exercises that illustrate, step by step, how they can be applied to dramatic texts. Part One provides an outline of the ideas that underpin the work, which help to prepare practitioners to become responsive and receptive, and to awaken their imagination. Part Two charts a journey through the foundational psychophysical exercises that can both orient an actor's training routine and be applied directly to the development of a role. Part Three focuses on more specific and elaborate methods of scene work, characterisation and the art of transformation. Drawing on the full range of Chekhov's writing in English and French, this book also examines unpublished material from the Dartington Hall archives and features interviews with actors who have worked with the technique, including Simon Callow and Joanna Merlin. It illustrates Chekhov's approach by referring to Rushe's own productions of Nikolai Gogol's short story Diary of a Madman and Shakespeare's Othello, as well as characters and scenes in Sarah Kane's Blasted and the contemporary American television series Breaking Bad. Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique is an accessible, comprehensive and contemporary point of reference for those already trained in the method, as well as an initiation and toolkit for practitioners who are just beginning to discover it.
Download or read book Playing written by Paul Kuritz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction to Acting by : Stanley Kahan
Download or read book Introduction to Acting written by Stanley Kahan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons written by Tom Isbell and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truthful human behaviour on stage and screen. Definitely not a 'how-to' book! This book articulates the intangible -- how to capture lightning in a jar. It works to develop awareness in order to help the aspiring actor evolve, grow and mature as a performer. Acting is an art that comes from oneself -- no tricks, no special techniques. Every great artist begins as a craftsman then develops into an artist. Each of the 100 plain-speaking lessons in this book is brief and deals with an essential truth. The book is divided into 5 sections: Approach, Fundamentals, Classes and Rehearsals, Performance and Final Lessons. A supplemental work for students and professionals.
Book Synopsis Introduction to the Alexander Technique by : Bill Connington
Download or read book Introduction to the Alexander Technique written by Bill Connington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the Alexander Technique, part of the brand-new Acting Essentials series, is the first textbook about the Alexander Technique written specially for undergraduates. This eight-week program can be taught over the course of half a semester, a full semester, or dipped into as needed to address students' issues with physicality, movement, breathing, voice and performance habits. The Alexander Technique has been a vital part of training for performers since the early 20th century. It is a core part of the curriculum at most acting conservatories and in many BFA programs. Sometimes considered purely a movement discipline, the Alexander Technique in fact takes into consideration the entire person-mind, body, voice, emotions, and imagination. Introduction to the Alexander Technique addresses the student's self as a whole and is suitable for beginning acting students in any academic setting, including those who take performance classes as an elective. The book also includes more than 150 practical, easy-to-follow exercises that help students reduce tension and improve their alignment, flexibility, and poise. The textbook is supported by a range of online videos demonstrating key exercises described throughout the book.
Download or read book Acting written by Richard Boleslavsky and published by Echo Point+ORM. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic text on the craft of Method acting by the founder of The American Laboratory Theatre. After studying at the Moscow Art Theatre under Konstantin Stanislavski, Richard Boleslavsky became one of the most important acting teachers of his or any generation. Bringing Stanislavski’s system to America in the 1920s and 30s, he influenced many of the titans of American drama, from his own students—including Lee Strasburg and Stella Adler—to Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and many others. In Acting: The First Six Lessons, Boleslavsky presents his acting theory and technique in a series of accessible and engaging dialogues. Widely considered a must-have for any serious actor, Boleslavsky’s work has long helped actors better understand their craft.
Download or read book Acting Power written by Robert Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This carefully revised 21st Century Edition (re)considers, in the context of today's field: questions such as 'should actors act from the inside or the outside?' and 'should the actor live the role or present the role?'; contemporary research into communication theory, cybernetics, and cognitive science; brilliantly illuminating and witty exercises for solo study and classroom use, and a through-line of useful references to classic plays; and penetrating observations about the actor's art by more than 75 distinguished professional actors and directors."--Publisher's description.
