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Author : Paula Cizmar
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573608421
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Death of a Miner written by Paula Cizmar and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Esper
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030748114X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Actor's Art and Craft written by William Esper and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to any challenge an actor faces, from soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a former student of Esper's, spent over a year observing his mentor teaching first-year acting students. In this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice. The Actor's Art and Craft vividly demonstrates that good training does not constrain actors' instincts—it frees them to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.
Author : Sanford Meisner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307830632
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
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
Author : John P. Harrington
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631552
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street written by John P. Harrington and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improbably located in the heart of the Jewish ghetto on the Lower East side of Manhattan, the Neighborhood Playhouse and its brief yet influential tenure offers a fascinating story in the annals of theater history. From 1915 to 1927, this progressive theater, along with the better-known Provincetown Players and the Theatre Guild, inaugurated the Little Theater Movement in America. In John P. Harrington’s detailed account of the Neighborhood Playhouse’s remarkable history, readers learn not only about its notable productions but also about its gradual shift in mission and the tensions between art and social work. Harrington traces the playhouse’s long-lasting legacy: it fostered The Neighborhood School of Acting made famous by Sanford Meisner, now the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and it helped spawn the expansive network of community theaters that thrive throughout America today. Well-researched and detailed, this book provides a vital yet often overlooked piece of theater history and a lost key to understanding the growth of theater arts in New York City.
Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559364409
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Love and Information written by Caryl Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caryl Churchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing? a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting."?Benedict Nightingale From Love and Information: SEX What sex evolved to do is get information from two sets of genes so you get offspring that's not identical to you. Otherwise you just keep getting the same thing over and over again like hydra or starfish. So sex essentially is information. You dont think that while we're doing it do you? It doesn't hurt to know it. Information and also love. If you're lucky. In this fast-moving kaleidoscope, more than one hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Declared "the greatest living English playwright" by Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill will premiere this latest work at London's Royal Court in fall 2012. Caryl Churchill is one of the most influential playwrights of our time. She is the author of more than twenty plays, including Seven Jewish Children, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Top Girls, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Cloud Nine, and Serious Money.
Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822213710
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Black Snow written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of guilt, responsibility, fate and friendship pervade these beautiful plays, tied together by the love and faith of a progressive Abbot from another time. ...SPAIN...commands our attention and offers a probative look at crises of conscience. --NY T
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802150677
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book A Life in the Theatre written by David Mamet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of scenes we see two actors - a seasoned pofessional and a novice - backstage and onstage going through a cycle of roles and an entire wardrobe of costumes.
Author : Paul Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The House of Connelly written by Paul Green and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Esper
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0345805690
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character written by William Esper and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Esper’s first book, The Actor’s Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. The Actor’s Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper’s second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class. Esper’s training builds on Sanford Meisner’s legendary exercises, a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors. His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role, helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.
Author : Gary Fishgall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068485290X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Gregory Peck written by Gary Fishgall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gregory Peck: A Biography, Gary Fishgall meticulously recounts Peck's influential life, revealing the effects of the actor on the film industry and of the film industry on the actor."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Bill Cain
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822225913
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Equivocation written by Bill Cain and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2014 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and blow Parliament to kingdom come with 36 barrels of devilish gunpowder! Shagspeare (after a contemporary spelling of the Bard's name) is commissioned by Robert Cecil, the prime minister, to write the "true historie" of the plot. And it must have witches! The King wants witches! But as Shag and the acting company of the Globe, under the direction of the great Richard Burbage, investigate the plot, they discover that the King's version of the story might, in fact, be a cover-up. Shag and his actors are confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma. Speak truth to power-and perhaps lose their heads? Or take the money and lie? Is there a third option-equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances, EQUIVOCATION gallops from the great Globe to the Tower of London to the halls of Parliament to the heart of Judith, Shag's younger daughter, who finds herself unexpectedly at the very heart of the political, dramatic and-ultimately-human mystery." - from publisher's website.
Author : Isaac Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635574781
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Method written by Isaac Butler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR “Entertaining and illuminating.”--The New Yorker * “Compulsively readable.”--New York Times * “Delicious, humane, probing.”--Vulture * “The best and most important book about acting I've ever read.”--Nathan Lane The critically acclaimed cultural history of Method acting-an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia's crushing repression, one of the most talented actors ever, Konstantin Stanislavski, asked these very questions, reached deep into himself, and emerged with an answer. How his “system” remade itself into the Method and forever transformed American theater and film is an unlikely saga that has never before been fully told. Now, critic and theater director Isaac Butler chronicles the history of the Method in a narrative that transports readers from Moscow to New York to Los Angeles, from The Seagull to A Streetcar Named Desire to Raging Bull. He traces how a cohort of American mavericks--including Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, and the storied Group Theatre--refashioned Stanislavski's ideas for a Depression-plagued nation that had yet to find its place as an artistic powerhouse. The Group's feuds and rivalries would, in turn, shape generations of actors who enabled Hollywood to become the global dream-factory it is today. Some of these performers the Method would uplift; others, it would destroy. Long after its midcentury heyday, the Method lives on as one of the most influential--and misunderstood--ideas in American culture. Studded with marquee names--from Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Elia Kazan, to James Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Dustin Hoffman--The Method is a spirited history of ideas and a must-read for any fan of Broadway or American film.
Author : Lloyd Suh
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822239906
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Lady written by Lloyd Suh and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
Author : Mary McCusker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Auditioning written by Mary McCusker and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR AUDITIONING FOREVER Hollywood's award-winning directors, busiest casting directors, leading showrunners, and successful actors share their expertise on landing the job in the unique art of auditioning. Acting coach Mary McCusker's in-depth interviews with these industry experts, give specific insider tips for actors to apply in the audition room. These Hollywood giants have been the creative forces behind many award-winning films and television shows. TELEVISION SHOWS: Emily in Paris, Black-ish, Brooklyn 99, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Pretty Little Liars, Malcolm in the Middle, Mr. Iglesias, Instant Mom, The Mindy Project, Better Things, The Walking Dead, The Perfectionists, Santa Clarita Diet, Arrested Development, The Dave Chapelle Show, The Connors, Family Reunion, The Wanda Sykes show, Glee, The Goldbergs, One Day at a Time, and more. FEATURE FILMS: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit Trilogy, Green Book, Bad Boys for Life, Dumb and Dumber II, Zoobiquity, Risky Business, Midnight Run, Groundhog Day, Unbroken, The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Empire of the Sun, Cool Runnings, The Brady Bunch, Doctor Dolittle, Charlie's Angels, Three Stooges, Bill Nye Saves the World, and more.
Author : Reginald Rose
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143104407
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Twelve Angry Men written by Reginald Rose and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Margaret Emory
Publisher : Backstage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780823087952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Ask an Agent written by Margaret Emory and published by Backstage Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actors at every stage of their careers have a lot of questions, and Ask an Agent gives a lot of answers. Do I need an agent? How do I get one? What will an agent do for me? When is it time to switch agents? Help is on the way! Author Margaret Emory--a talent agent for more than fourteen years--writes Ask an Agent, the most popular column in America's foremost publication for working actors, Back Stage. In clear, straightforward text, she gives the agent's spin on everything from headshots and resumes to auditions, casting directors, and managers. Ask an Agent offers real help for the real world of acting.
Author : Larry Silverberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575258997
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (589 download)
Download or read book Winning Your Acting Auditions written by Larry Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here are fifty thrilling new audition monologues from Larry Silverberg, award-winning actor and director, Master Teacher of Acting and the most published acting coach in the world."--Page [4] of cover.
