Acting techniques

A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "e;second career"e; as author of twenty-nine books.

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare?

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

Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today's actor.

Acting has traditionally been considered a form of pretending or falsehood, compared with the so-called reality or truth of everyday life.

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama.

This collection of Applied Improvisation stories and strategies draws back the curtain on an exciting, innovative, growing field of practice and research that is changing the way people lead, create, and collaborate.

From the big issues to the fine points, this book gives you what you need to know when they call "e;Action!

In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his first incursion into the challenging task of writing about an actor's experience and his vision of the craft.

A Korean Approach to Actor Training develops a vital, intercultural method of performer training, introducing Korean and more broadly East Asian discourses into contemporary training and acting practice.

'As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

Winner of the ASTR Translation Prize 2023.

To win a screen role, an actor must learn to contend with an on-camera audition.

Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard.

"e;The study of acting should not begin with an exploration of feeling, perception, imagination, memories, intention, personalization, self-identification.

The Decroux Sourcebook is the first point of reference for any student of the 'hidden master' of twentieth century theatre.

This book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides' most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them.

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama.

Re-Purposing Suzuki: A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training introduces a system of text analysis that synthesizes physical, psychological, and vocal components in order to truthfully embody heightened texts and contexts.

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

The Student Actor Prepares is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor's journey.

Thinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare's words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real.

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.

This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre.

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This practical book with illustrations links Alexander technique to acting, dancing and singing by the trainer of performers on The Lion King

The Alexander Technique is a method of physical relaxation that reduces tension and strain throughout the body.

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

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge.

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.

The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder takes readers on a journey through the life history, creative genealogies and unique working processes of one of the master teachers of Euro-American postmodern movement-based improvisational performance who has, until now, received scant critical attention.

American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers provides a comprehensive guide to learning a "e;General American"e; accent, made specifically for native English speakers.

Are you doing a play by Tennessee Williams?

Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today's actor.

A handbook of theatre workshops for actors, teachers and directors, by a leader in the field of physical theatre and research

This is a book of theatrical beginnings for actors, teachers and directors.

Inclusive Character Analysis foregrounds representations of race, gender, class, ability, and sexual orientation by blending script analysis with a variety of critical theories in order to create a more inclusive performance practice for the classroom and the stage.

A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity.

Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists, How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night.

A collection of texts by Eugenio Barba reconstructing the history of his relationships with the Asian classical theatres.

How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage?

Need to learn an accent for an audition?

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, performance, and structuring maneuvers intended to foster the impression of a screen reality that does not exist as presented.

'Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years.

Many remember Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece, The Gold Rush, as the finest blend of comedy and farce ever brought to the screen.

We train because we are human and we become human because we train.