Acting & Auditioning

A new approach to actor training by a senior teacher, this illustrated manual shows how to use the body to produce rich, varied and truthful performances. The approach, rooted in the Michael Chekhov Technique, integrates ancient Qigong knowledge with...

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...

An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors and drama students...

An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors and drama students...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955999864Author Juliet AceFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Country SettingPublisher Country Setting

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...

Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting & Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews...

Woody Allen is a uniquely innovative performer, writer and director with nearly fifty movies to his credit, from cult slapstick films and romantic comedies to introspective character studies and crime thrillers. Classics such as Annie Hall, Manhattan,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080033Author HalpernFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 235g

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...

Insightful, in-depth and evocative, this book is a collection of conversations with nine of the most innovative theatre directors of our time in Europe and North America: * Eugenio Barba * Lev Dodin * Declan Donnellan * Elizabeth LeCompte * Robert LePage...

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas, is a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Each succinct yet insightful entry is written by a leading authority on the opera and includes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954684365Author Andy GottsFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Dewi Lewis Media LtdPublisher Dewi Lewis Media Ltd

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction...

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...

From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this Bloomsbury Revelations edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ending with...

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and...

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Radioactive Monologues for Women draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage. Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television, this collection of extracts is perfect for audition and...

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...

How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it look like in different working contexts? This book provides an accessible introduction to the political and artistic...

Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom! Wil Wheaton grew up. ...

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...

In a career that spanned over seven decades, Roger Moore was at the very heart of the show-business scene. We all knew him as an actor who starred in films that made him famous the world over, but he was also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur -...

What is good acting? How does one create believable characters? How can an actor understand a character if they do not understand themselves?In The Science of Acting, Sam Kogan uses his theories on the relationship between neuroscience, psychology and...

A gripping, painfully honest and ultimately inspirational, New York Times bestselling memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. 'It's a shame that Pinkett Smith's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553386189Author Kitty KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

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,...

"...a lot of these things, these impulses, are healthy things, but they just get distorted. Or maybe it's the world that gets - is - distorted, but you see, it's my job to get people to fit in with the world, distorted or not, so that they feel happy...

Straightforward and readable EThe Scene Study BookE is a practical step-by-step guide that runs from the analysis of basic story structure a including conflict and story arc a to making choices including physical and psychological action. It includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593765439Author W. Scott PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

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 9781566081160Author Rebecca YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764163586Author the Acting BibleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S.Publisher Peterson's Guides,U.S.

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365611Author Christopher BayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc...

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...