Stanislavski's Legacy - A Collection of Comments on a Variety of Aspects of an Actor's Life and Art
Constantin Stanislavski trans Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
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$11.99
Acting & Audition books - Acting books
Technical Theater for Non-technical People
Drew Campbell
Allworth Press
Completely updated to reflect state-of-the-art standards in today's fast-changing theater technology, Technical Theater for Nontechnical People helps actors, dancers, playwrights, and directors to understand...
$19.99
The Technique of Good Speech
Kate Emile-Behnke
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$19.99
Mask or Face - Reflections in an Actor's Mirror
Michael Redgrave
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$29.99
The Body Speaks - Peformance and Expression
Lorna Marshall + Foreword by Yoshi Oida
Methuen
The body speaks at every moment, though we are rarely conscious of it Not only is it our primary instrument of communication, but it is the means by which we experience the world This ground-breaking boo...
$28.99
From Acting to Performance - Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism
Philip Auslander
Routledge
From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander Spanning over a decade, the essays survey the changes in acting and performance that o...
$47.99
Stage Directions
John Gielgud
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$18.99
The Messingkauf Dialogues
Bertolt Brecht - trans John Willett
Methuen
Written between 1939 and 1942 these are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argu...
$15.99
Legislative Theatre - Using Performance to Make Politics
Augusto Boal
Routledge
A further stage in the Boal project, this is an attempt to use theatre within a political system to create a truer form of democracy This text includes a full description of the principles of "legislati...
$39.99
Later Queens of the French Stage
H Noel Williams
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Features Sophie Arnould & Madame Guimard & Madame Raucourt & Madame Dugazon & Madame Contat & Mme Saint-Huberty - pub 1910
$70
Shakespeare's Players - insights from actors & critics into the major roles
Judith Cook
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$21.99
How To Make It in Showbiz (A Survival Kit)
June Walker Rogers
Dramatic Publishing
Here is a practical, professional, no-nonsense "how to" book that tells you the truth about making it in the incredibly difficult field of show business. This is a book not only for the actor but for anyone ...
$15.99
Picturing Performance - The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept & Practice
Thomas F. Heck - HARDBACK
Boydell & Brewer
There has long been a need to introduce performing-arts enthusiasts and students to the fascinating field of iconography, both as manifested in art history and in its more pragmatic or applied forms Yet re...
$75
Theatre
David Mamet
Faber & Faber
"If theatre were a religion, many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical' As always, Mamet delivers on his promise, calling for nothing less than the death of the director and t...
$27.99
True and False - Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
David Mamet
Faber & Faber
A pleasurable read that demolishes all the ethereal myths surrounding the clap-trap theory of acting and directing. It tells you how to judge the role and approach the part, how to work with the playwright a...
$24.99
The Invisible Actor
Yoshi Oida & Lorna Marshall - Foreword Peter Brook
Methuen
"Yoshi Oida shows how the mysteries and secrets of performance are inseparable from a precise, concrete and detailed science learned in the heat of experience. The vital lessons he passes on to us are told w...
$21.99
Aaargh to Zizz - 135 Drama Games
Graeme K Talboys
Dramatic Lines
** 10% DISCOUNT ** This resource material has been created by a drama teacher for use in formal drama lessons and in informal situations such as clubs and parties The games are flexible, from warm-up to c...
$27.99
Acting (Re)considered - A Theoretical and Practical Guide
Phillip B Zarrilli - ed
Routledge
Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance This second edition includes five new es...
$49.99
The Actor and the Target
Declan Donnellan
Nick Hern Books
Declan Donnellan's fresh and radical approach to acting takes a scalpel to the heart of persistent fears from 'I don't know what I'm doing!' through 'I don't know who I am!' to 'I don't know what I'm play...
$21.99
Why Is That So Funny? A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
John Wright
Nick Hern Books
A practical investigation of how comedy works, by a well-respected practitioner and teacher Comedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performances. For that reason, it is rarely written a...
$24.99