Acting techniques books

The actress looks back on her ninety years of life, discussing her successful career as a child star, her Academy...  Read More >>

Written to provide the actor with fresh and unusual Shakespearean audition material, this book provides fifty speeches...  Read More >>

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Im 19. Jahrhundert wird die traditionell aus der Commedia dell’arte stammende Lachfigur des Pierrot in Frankreich...  Read More >>

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Perspectives on Shakespeare in Performance brings together Professor Styan's thoughts on Shakespeare as a playwright...  Read More >>

Many actors shy away from singing, desptite the fact that it could more than double their chances at auditions....  Read More >>

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The latest edition of America's best-selling monologue series for women. All monologues are excerpted from plays...  Read More >>

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Wit's End is a loose adaptation of La dama boba (The Lady Simpleton), a comedy by the Spanish playwright Lope de...  Read More >>

While there is no reason to think that Shakespeare was acquainted with Aristotle's Poetics, a surprisingly large...  Read More >>

Seventy-five speeches from the best American and British plays of the 1980s. The text includes dramatists such as...  Read More >>

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The plays contained in Seattle Children's Theatre's second Smith and Kraus anthology are appropriate for professional...  Read More >>

Gwyneth Paltrow, an actress who followed in the footsteps of her mother, Blythe Danner, is profiled in this biography...  Read More >>

A guide for film, television and theatre actors on auditioning. It offers practical tips on audition etiquette,...  Read More >>

A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated...  Read More >>

Fascinating survey of acting styles and the psychology of emotions in acting.  Read More >>

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Method Acting is one of the most popular and controversial approaches to acting in the United States. By concentrating...  Read More >>

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Here for the first time, the theories, training exercises and productions of fourteen directors are analysed in...  Read More >>

This text addresses all performers who sing and act, whether in opera, musical thaetre or music-theatre. It provides...  Read More >>