Acting techniques

Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for women - from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 - perfect for auditions or class.

Integrative Performance serves a crucial need of 21st-century performers by providing a transdisciplinary approach to training.

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training.

Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for those interested in the art of clowning and physical theatre, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians, circus artists, mask performers and devisers of new work.

Movie Geek is a nerdy dive into popular movies, brought to you by the award-losing Den Of Geek website, with a foreword by the UK's foremost film critic, Mark Kermode.

Whether auditioning for graduate programs or professional productions, In Performance is an indispensable collection of monologues for today's aspiring young actors.

Looking for fresh, original scenes for your fast-paced acting or directing class?

This collection of 75 solo speeches and performance pieces for actors has been selected from the finest material being written today for theatre in America and England.

Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.

Singing on stage can be a daunting prospect for actors, particularly for those who have not sung before.

This practical handbook is invaluable for anyone performing, teaching, studying or simply wanting a new way to enjoy Shakespeare.

Lyric Incarnate examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

A definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars.

'Once you start working with someone like Litz you don't ever want to stop if you can help it' - Vanessa Redgrave

Litz Pisk was widely regarded as the most influential teacher of modern theatre movement of the 20th Century.

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 London.

Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting.

Performing in Contemporary Musicals brings into sharp focus the skills performers must possess when tackling shows that are newly written, in development, or somewhere in between.

This book compares the theatrical cultures of early modern England and Spain and explores the causes and consequences not just of the remarkable similarities but also of the visible differences between them.

This book provides a historical overview and then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama.

Based on the latest research from the fields of neuroscience and mind-body psychology, Acting With Passion offers a revolutionary new approach to the age-old problems of the actor: dealing with nerves, engaging the body, quieting the inner critic, auditioning, creating a character, and even playing comedy.

Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures.

How can the practice of improvisation become the lens through which we view the world?

This pioneering introduction to Stanislavsky's methods and modes of actor training covers all of the essential elements of his System.

In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination.

Make a career out of your voice?

The lives of circus artists can be mentally and physically demanding.

As personal technology becomes ever-present in the classroom and rehearsal studio, its use and ubiquity is affecting the collaborative behaviors that should underpin actor training.

Country House, a 'comedy with corpses,' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously.

This is the first book on enduring Hollywood star Eleanor Parker, long underrated despite three best actress Academy Award nominations (Caged, 1950; Detective Story, 1951; Interrupted Melody, 1955).

Intercultural Acting and Performer Training is the first collection of essays from a diverse, international group of authors and practitioners focusing on intercultural acting and voice practices worldwide.

Few actors have had a career as dynamic as that Kathleen Turner's; success has followed her from the television screen to major blockbusters, from indie films to the theater stage.

Foundations for Performance Training: Skills for the Actor-Dancer explores the physical, emotional, theoretical, and practical components of performance training in order to equip readers with the tools needed to successfully advance in their development as artists and entertainers.

In The Reason to Sing, renowned composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their singing performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life.

Applied Meisner for the 21st-Century Actor develops Meisner's core principles for the contemporary actor and presents a Meisner-based acting technique that empowers practitioners to take ownership of their own creative process.

Monologues are an essential part of every actor s toolkit.

This book is an unique resource which directly addresses all performers who sing and act, whether in opera, musical theatre or music-theatre.

Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain.

First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the 'well-made play' in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing it to be devalued, we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre.

First Published in 2000.

Fiction's Truth explores professional actors' lived experiences of representing human suffering, distress, and violence.

This book elucidates how learning from actors enables an intense education of attention for anthropologists.

At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be 'his only student, who understands the System'.

First Published in 1997.

A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude.

';Christopher Bayes is a master, an extraordinary visionary who has done more to liberate young American actors over the last two generations than I can possibly express.

Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic.

Winner of the ASTR Translation Prize 2023.