Acting & Auditioning

Using Open Scenes as a "way in" to scripted material, this book establishes a foundational actor training methodology that can be applied to the performance of film or television acting, commercials, and theatrical realism. Unlike other methodologies,...

Provides an accessible introduction to the evolution of acting as a discipline, allowing students to understand the context of a variety of acting practices. The author is a professional actor as well as an academic, so balances theoretical advice with a...

An Actor's Research: Investigating Choices for Practice and Performance presents an accessible and highly practical guide to the research approaches required of the actor. It aims to establish the precision and rigour of the actor's craft that is...

The third volume in dialect coach Robert Blumenfeld's new series on accents ETeach Yourself Accents: Europe A Handbook for Young Actors and SpeakersE covers the European accents most useful for the stage and screen: French German Italian Russian ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615593821Author Steven G LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Actors RoomPublisher Actors RoomWeight(grams) 127g

This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England. Gerald Bentley discusses sharers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982655832Author Jared KelnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Infinite Mind Training GroupPublisher Infinite Mind Training GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571199990Author Harold GuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781794582255Author Robert ChapinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581908Author David Dean BottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

An essential update to this classic book from the ultimate insider, Tom Logan. It contains everything you need to know about the profession of acting from both sides of the camera.Previously a highly successful working actor, Tom brings that experience...

This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. The first section centres on Elizabethan theatre practice, the second highlights themes, episodes and...

Throughout Southeast Asia, film stars hold an important place in popular culture. They feature prominently in magazines and newspapers, on billboards and cinema marquees, at public events and premieres, and on the internet and social media. Southeast...

Acting Is Believing has trained generations of actors and remains one of the most popular and influential classic Stanislavski-based acting books over the past sixty years. Now in its thirteenth edition, it has been reimagined for the art of acting in...

Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined offers a new set of exercises for coaching actors when working on productions that are non-traditionally staged in arenas, thrusts, or alleys. All of the exercises are adapted from...

Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto...

Takes a cognitive approach to screen actingAbout the AuthorDan Leberg, Lecturer, Amsterdam University College and the University of Groningen.Book InformationISBN 9781474484138Author Dan LebergFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Edinburgh University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646994236Author Charmian MezentsevaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams)...

A Monologue is an Outrageous Situation! How to Survive the 60-Second Audition explains how to successfully tackle the "cattle call" acting audition with a sixty-second monologue. Through Q&As, tips, director's notes, and a glossary full of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247272Author K CallanFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Silman-James PressPublisher Silman-James PressWeight(grams) 277g

By fusing traditional formative script analysis with devised theatre strategies and a variety of digital, written, visual, and performance-based modes of expression, readers will learn how to approach the script analysis process from multiple angles.The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760622770Author Francis GreensladeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566082006Author Gavin LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 512g

The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct. Divided into two sections, The Actress first examines the major issues in studying film acting, stardom, and...

Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film is the first study dedicated to understanding the work of female Method actors on film.While Method acting on film has typically been associated with the explosive machismo of actors like Marlon Brando and...

A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836557Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Play Readings: A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners demystifies the standards and protocols of a play reading, demonstrating how to create effective and evocative readings for those new to or inexperienced with the genre. It examines all of the...

Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think of the plays as happening out of outrageous situations, and remember just how non-realistic and...

For nearly a decade, Jackie Apodaca and Michael Kostroff shared duties as advice columnists for the actors' trade paper, Backstage. Their highly popular weekly feature, "The Working Actor," fielded questions from actors all over the country. A...

In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years...

We train because we are human and we become human because we train. This is the surprising and original conclusion of Anatomy of Performance Training, in which John Matthews shows how training is a very human response to the problems of having a body...

The Actor's Survival Guide: How to Make Your Way in Hollywood is a handbook and essential guide to the business of living and working as an actor in the Los Angeles area. Exploring the experience of relocating to L.A.; the casting process; and how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538137642Author Tom LoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text offers a collection of strategic and practical approaches to understanding, analyzing, and embodying a range of heightened text styles, including Greek tragedy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566082099Author Rebecca WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 278g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879100919Author Richard LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 726g

An extensive guide to acting, followed by close to a hundred audition pieces chosen from the whole of world drama. Masterclass is a unique handbook for actors, student actors and teachers. 'Full of such essential truth that it seems at once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868195162Author Dean CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdWeight(grams) 340g

Award Monologues for Men is a collection of fifty monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in...