Acting techniques

Supporting Staged Intimacy: A Practical Guide for Theatre Creatives, Managers, and Crew examines the relationship between staged intimacy, intimacy direction, and those supporting the process during pre-production, rehearsal, and performance.

Modern Voice: Working with Actors on Contemporary Text has been designed to follow on from Catherine s previous book, Classic Voice: Working with Actors on Vocal Style, focusing on the less defined demands within contemporary drama.

The Director's Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage.

The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world's key theatre practitioners.

Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical.

As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed.

A biography based on personal interviews with the actor as well as his friends and fellow filmmakers: “Entertaining .

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions.

Ruth Etting (1897-1978) was among the most important performers of the early 20th century.

Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living.

Are you stuck in your comfort zone?

Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical.

How to Rehearse a Scene: Progressive Exercises to Enhance Scene Work provides detailed exercises and assignments that will imaginatively and artistically enhance an actor's scene process work from start to finish.

Mastering the Shakespeare Audition is a handbook for actors of all ages and experience, whether auditioning for a professional role or a place in drama school.

Creating A Role is the third book - alongside the international bestseller An Actor Prepares and Building A Character - in the series of influential translations that introduced Stanislavski's acting 'system' to the English-speaking world.

In Rehearsal is a clear and accessible how-to approach to the rehearsal process.

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Frustrating, nerve-wracking, job-winning or job-losing, flawed yet necessary - auditioning is a maddening business for everyone involved.

This book gives new insight into acting and theatre-making through phenomenology (the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience).

Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility.

In the Company of Actors is a wonderful ensemble of entertaining and illuminating discussions with sixteen of the most celebrated and prestigious actors in contemporary theatre, film and television.

Acting for the Camera: Back to One is a "e;how to"e; book with practical steps to achieve a professional performance on camera.

Despite being roundly cited as much harder to perform than its dramatic counterpart, comic acting is traditionally seen as a performance genre that can't be taught.

Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age explores the place and influence of black racial impersonation in US society during a crucial and transitional time period.

Why are so many women still not properly listened to?

The Shakespeare Masterclasses is a collection of rare interviews from many of the world's most renowned Shakespearean actors, exploring their varied approaches to topics including character creation, script analysis, acting for the stage and the camera, rehearsal, preparation, and collaboration.

Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention.

Paul Elsam's Acting Characters is an introductory handbook for the aspiring actor, compiled of twenty steps grouped into six sections to help create, present and sustain a believable character in most circumstances.

Wanting to understand the workings and methods of your favourite theatre practitioner?

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them.

In this thoughtfully curated collection, actors preparing for an audition or searching for quality scenes to hone their chops will find a wealth of contemporary material from American and British plays.

Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and political campaigns.

This book gives new insight into acting and theatre-making through phenomenology (the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience).

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

Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunning, sonically immersive, and physically rigorous embodied performance.

Comedy is a global multibillion dollar industry and it is also one of the easiest ones to get into.

Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training addresses some of the challenges met by acting students with dyslexia and highlights the abilities demonstrated by individuals with specific learning differences in actor training.

This second volume of the best monologues from the Best American Short Plays series features a diverse selection drawn from the outstanding works from many of today's best American playwrights.

Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers.

This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness.

Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area.

Advanced Consciousness Training for Actors: Meditation Techniques for the Performing Artist explores theories and techniques for deepening the individual actor's capacity to concentrate and focus attention.

Can you really write a play that lasts a minute?

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.

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.

An examination of the art of stand-up comedy, its constituent parts and how they workConsidering stand-up comedy to be an art-form deserving greater attention and analysis, Getting the Joke provides an exploration of the work of the stand-up comedian.

Actor Movement: Expression of the Physical Being is a textbook and video resource for the working actor, the student and all those who lead and witness movement for the actor, including movement tutors, movement directors and directors.