Acting techniques

Written to meet the needs of thousands of students and pre-professional singers participating in production workshops and classes in opera and musical theater, Acting for Singers leads singing performers step by step from the studio or classroom through audition and rehearsals to a successful performance.

This vibrant anthology of radio plays features works by one of Poland's 'angry young men' playwrights.

'Scrupulously compiled and skillfully translated by Andrei Malaev-Babel, The Vakhtangov Sourcebook .

Starting from the idea that the main hindrance to a great acting performance is self-consciousness on the part of the performer, My Character Wouldn't do That examines the ways in which some of our traditional and contemporary approaches to acting put us into a 'mind space' that can encourage self-consciousness.

This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being.

In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight director David L.

Frantic Assembly have had a powerful and continuing influence on the popularisation of devising practices in contemporary theatre-making.

Psychology for Actors is a study of modern psychology, specifically designed for the working actor and actor-in-training, that covers discrete areas of psychological theory that actors can apply to their creative process to form and connect with characters.

What are the key elements that go into creating a work of art for the stage?

First Published in 1997.

Owning Our Voices offers a unique, first-hand account of working within the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition of extended voice work by Margaret Pikes, an acclaimed voice teacher and founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre.

Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson's unconventional rehearsal methodology.

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010.

Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film is the first study dedicated to understanding the work of female Method actors on film.

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.

101 More Improv Games for Children and Adults: A Smart Fun Book for Ages 5 and Up is the follow-up to Bob Bedores popular 101 Improv Games for Children and Adults.

In Performance is intended for young people who are auditioning for both undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional productions and industry meetings.

This exciting new book explores the pioneering radical sensing work of Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) and the practices of five women inspired by her.

Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an antidote to the traditional underrepresentation of women on stage, by offering twenty-two short plays that put women right at the centre of the action.

In Collaborative Playwriting, five collectively written plays apply polyvocal methods in which clash and frisson replace synthesis, a dialogic approach to collective writing that has never before been articulated or documented.

The Polish playwright and artist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, is now recognized as Poland's leading theatrical innovator of the interwar years and one of the outstanding creative personalities of the European avant-garde.

This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment.

Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski.

The art of armed and unarmed stage combat thrills actors and audiences alike the world over.

"e;The superheroines of the theater are backand better and bolder than ever.

Including a foreword by Simon Callow, a dedicated admirer of the Maly, Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre provides both a valuable methodological model for actor training and a unique insight into the journeys taken from studio to stage.

Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "e;entangled histories"e; as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography.

'I ll tell you what gets me riled up, what gets me dark and dirty, what Speaks to the Spiders living in my Soul and makeS me loSe my Shit'Are you Angry?

Owning Our Voices offers a unique, first-hand account of working within the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition of extended voice work by Margaret Pikes, an acclaimed voice teacher and founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre.

Rhythm is often referred to as one of the key elements of performance and acting, being of central importance to both performance making and training.

What does it take to control your performance nerves, to feel confident when facing audiences, and to acquire mastery of your talent?

Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.

This book is an insiders' account of the groundbreaking Moscow production of Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Anatoly Efros in 1966, which heralded a paradigm shift in the interpretation and staging of Chekhov's plays.

The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama.

'How I wish this book had been available to me when I started my voiceover career!

Want to be the next Andy Serkis as Gollum in Lord of the Rings?

Using Open Scenes as a "e;way in"e; 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.

Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond brings together a community of international practitioner-researchers who explore voice through soma or soma through voice.

Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies.

Patsy Rodenburg explores how we speak, what we speak and the impact of the spoken word.

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production.

Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's system.

'Every scene or action or speech has a so therefore.

David Zinder's Body Voice Imagination is written by one of the master teachers of the Michael Chekhov technique of acting training.

Provides the expert advice you need to get your big break!