Acting techniques

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisational exercises based on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov.

This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavsky.

Listening and Talking: A Pathway to Acting provides undergraduate acting students with a clear, achievable, step-by-step way to approach the work of playing a role.

Listening and Talking: A Pathway to Acting provides undergraduate acting students with a clear, achievable, step-by-step way to approach the work of playing a role.

Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2025The stage of the 1700s established a star culture, with the emergence of such acting celebrities as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber, and Sarah Siddons.

Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2025The stage of the 1700s established a star culture, with the emergence of such acting celebrities as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber, and Sarah Siddons.

The way some introductory acting books are written, it seems that a literal leg break is your best option.

Stanislavsky and Intimacy is the first academic edited book with a focus on how intimacy protocols, choreography, and theories intersect with the broad practices of Konstantin Stanislavsky's 'system'.

This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavsky.

Chekov has recorded the results of his many years of experimenting, testing and verifying in the professional theater and schools of theater.

The theater of the 21st century, in many ways, is expanding to require new muscles of its actors, and so should their scene choices.

Provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in post-war Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in neorealist filmmaking.

Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson SpeechworkA(R) Guide for Acting in Accent presents a comprehensive and systematic approach to accent acquisition for actors.

Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson SpeechworkA(R) Guide for Acting in Accent presents a comprehensive and systematic approach to accent acquisition for actors.

Provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in post-war Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in neorealist filmmaking.

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.

An edited collection of essays exploring the work and legacy of the academic and theatre-maker Clive Barker.

An edited collection of essays exploring the work and legacy of the academic and theatre-maker Clive Barker.

Voice Made Visible is an exploration of voice training and performance practice based on the use and application of Multi-Octave Vocal Range techniques.

Voice Made Visible is an exploration of voice training and performance practice based on the use and application of Multi-Octave Vocal Range techniques.

Shakespeare's plays were written some four hundred years ago, and while his characters are enduring, they are also alien.

Stanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky's "e;system"e; and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today's anti-racist theatre practices.

Stanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky's "e;system"e; and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today's anti-racist theatre practices.

How to Swing in Musical Theatre shines a light on the most universal techniques used by cast members who, in response to absence, can perform multiple roles across an ensemble.

How to Swing in Musical Theatre shines a light on the most universal techniques used by cast members who, in response to absence, can perform multiple roles across an ensemble.

Regardless of your profession as a teacher, doctor, writer, or business associate, every presentation is a performance.

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames.

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames.

Sind Sie interessiert am Improvisationstheaterspiel als Ressource und Haltung in Psychotherapie, Beratung, Coaching und Pädagogik?

Sind Sie interessiert am Improvisationstheaterspiel als Ressource und Haltung in Psychotherapie, Beratung, Coaching und Pädagogik?

Practicing Archetype addresses performer training, specifically the self-pedagogy of actors who train solo, on their own, as an independent learning process, an opportunity for embodied research, and a form of critical pedagogy.

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.

Jocelyn Jones is one of Hollywood's most prized secret weapons.

Un actor se prepara es la primera obra de pedagogía teatral de Konstantín Stanislavski.

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that - a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed interpreter.

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that - a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed interpreter.

Der profunde Ratgeber zum Thema StimmeFür jeden, der in seinem Beruf viel spricht oder singt, ist die Stimme wichtiges, vielleicht sogar wichtigstes Instrument.

En este clásico estudio, Fredric Jameson da cuenta, con destreza y sensibilidad incomparables, del teatro político de Bertolt Brecht, y sostiene su importancia para las prácticas artísticas de una época turbulenta.

Directing for Community Theatre is a primer for the amateur director working in community theatre.

The Act or Craft is the delivery system for mind and heart.

Until very recently, directing wisdom was passed on in the form of "e;tips"e;.

Until very recently, acting wisdom was passed on the form of "e;tips.

Revolutionary!