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A Practical Handbook for the Actor Author: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler ISBN: 0394744128 Recommended Retail Price: $12.00 6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. An Actor Prepares Author: Constantin Stanislavski ISBN: 0878309837 Recommended Retail Price: $23.95 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.So much mystery and veneration surrounds the writings of the great Russian teacher and director Stanislavski that perhaps the greatest surprise awaiting a first-time r... Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part Author: Michael Shurtleff ISBN: 0802772404 Recommended Retail Price: $15.95 What Stanislavsky was to acting, Michael Shurtleff is to auditioning. The complete book on how to audition for the theatre. Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus Author: Marina Caldarone, Maggie Lloyd-Williams ISBN: 0896762521 Recommended Retail Price: $19.95 ACTIONS: The Actors' Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance. Actors need actions. Actors cannot ‘act’ adjectives, they need verbs. Verbs are an aim to achieve, an action to perform. ‘Actions’ are active verbs. ‘I tempt you.’ ‘You taunt ... Author: Judith Weston ISBN: 0941188248 Recommended Retail Price: $26.95 Directing film or television is a high-stakes oppucatiopn - the white water rafting of entertainment jobs. It captures your full attention at every moment, calling on you to commit every resource and stretch yourself to the limit. But for many directors, the excitement they feel about a new project tightens into anxiet... A Challenge For The Actor Author: Uta Hagen ISBN: 0684190400 Recommended Retail Price: $28.00 Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing... The Actor in You enhances the reader’s appreciation of the art of acting by helping them realize that they already possess, in principle, the ability to play a role, to fulfill the sense of drama and to structure dramatic scenes, and the capacity to express emotion. Without losing... Author: Sonia Moore ISBN: 0140466606 Recommended Retail Price: $14.00 The Actor and the Target: New Edition Author: Declan Donnellan ISBN: 1559362855 Recommended Retail Price: $18.95 “Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn’t ‘second nature,’ it is ‘first nature.’”—Declan Donnellan This immensely popular and ever-practical book on acting takes a scalpel to the heart of actors’ persistent fears, helping them to release their talent on stage. It i... Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials Author: Laura Thudium ISBN: 0823088391 Recommended Retail Price: $35.00 Whether you are an actor in a summer-stock or regional theater, an acting conservatory program, a high-school or college production, a community theater, a local holiday pageant...or anywhere else, this is the best all-purpose "how-to" guide to makeup for the theater. Besides period makeup, age makeup, and special-effe... Search the web for Actors Actors pictures |