Acting & Auditioning

The Art of Voice Acting covers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. This sixth edition is reorganized and completely updated to include the latest information on how to get started in voiceover, performing techniques, setting up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581156478Author Corita KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Caryl Churchill and Michael Frayn to Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane. Including pieces by award-winning British...

A comprehensive study of Johnny Depp's work through the lens of ten of his most iconic roles American film star Johnny Depp (b.1963) has led an incredibly diverse career, playing eccentric characters in what are now considered classics including Edward...

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.Each of the chapters...

'Stimulating and intelligent' Yoshi Oida Seventy percent of everyday conversation is conveyed through body language, twenty percent is the voice and only ten percent is the meaning of the words. In The Body Speaks, expert RADA trainer Lorna Marshall,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312318796Author Michael SchulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637742204Author Bernard HillerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Matt Holt BooksPublisher BenBella BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 148mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910162217Author Kevin KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Paperbooks Publishing LtdPublisher Paperbooks Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 285g

Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the...

Using the techniques and insights of clowning, this book draws on original workshops and research to provide practical clowning exercises to develop wider acting practice in innovative ways. The book offers guidance and explanation to key concepts...

'How I wish this book had been available to me when I started my voiceover career!' Miriam Margolyes A concise handbook outlining the skills, the know-how and the business of voiceovers, with a particular focus on the UK industry. Stephen Kemble, a...

Acting wasn't a long-held childhood dream for Larry Lamb, instead his childhood memories are filled with recollections of his parents continuously fighting. His mother and father were totally mismatched, the only thing they shared in common was their...

Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters - and themselves. Whatever the native accent of the speaker, this easy communication to the listener must...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516565Author Brooke ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g

Jennifer Lawrence is the reigning queen of lots of things: Hollywood, the awkward award-ceremony-stumble, and hundreds of priceless Buzzfeed pages - to name a few. She announced herself to the world at a young age in The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone,...

'For more than twenty years, Katharine Hepburn imparted many of the details of her life to me suggesting that I weave them into a book - one that would appear upon her death. Sad to say, the time has come to publish that book. But I find comfort in...

The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years...Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second...

The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690334Author LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French IncWeight(grams) 201g

Frustrating, nerve-wracking, job-winning or job-losing, flawed yet necessary - auditioning is a maddening business for everyone involved. The people behind the audition desk are looking for a killer audition (often under tremendous pressure), but most of...

'Ah! The Fringe! I can't think of a more delightful way of putting my liver, bank account, relationship, complexion, and mental stability under the greatest strain they've ever known!' Mel Giedroyc It is the world's largest arts festival, attracting...

Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes five new essays and has been fully revised and updated,...

The definitive account of the love affair that has captured the nation - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.After much speculation in the national media, Prince Harry finally confirmed the rumours about his relationship with American actress Meghan Markle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081160Author Rebecca YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 210g

Luvvies. Tyrannical directors. Useless agents. Less job security than an England football manager. Who'd be an actor?Michael Simkins isn't sure, even though he's been one himself for over thirty years. Join him backstage as he examines that business...

A guide to Psycho-Physical Acting, complete with games and exercises. When Stanislavsky died, he was working on a new system, Psycho-Physical Acting. Previously he had taught that truthful performance can only spring from the actor's imagination (the...

Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and...

The highly regarded actor training manual by top movement teacher Anne Dennis. This inspirational and instructive book shows how actors can use their body to be as expressive and 'articulate' as they are with words. It attempts to rethink and analyse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956896612Author Julie MeighanFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint JemBooksPublisher JemBooksDimensions(mm) 152mm * 228mm * 5mm

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a...

Winner of a Nancy Staub Award for Excellence in Publications on the Art of Puppetry Connecting the art of puppetry with deeper learning for children, this workbook offers a comprehensive guide on how to bring puppetry into the classroom. It places...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553572339Author Shirley MaclaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452296534Author Nicholas MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 251g

The Actor's Business Plan is a self-directed practical guide for actors graduating from formal training programs, as well as for those already in the business whose careers need to move ahead more successfully. Using the familiar language of acting...

Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's system. Author Nick O'Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike through the use of practical exercises that allow students to develop...

Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women aims to provide new and exciting audition and showcase material for actresses of black, African American, South Asian and Middle Eastern heritage. Featuring the work...

This book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses the lack of scholarship on Barrymore by offering a range of varied perspectives on the actor's work.Book InformationISBN...

'Masks are empowering... They enable you to take risks. They provoke you into working with the reckless logic of a six-year-old or the enigmatic stillness of someone wiser than you'll ever be. But above all, masks let you be you without your habitual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962970931Author Eric MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ermor Enterprises,U.S.Publisher Ermor Enterprises,U.S.Weight(grams) 272g