Shakespeare's Players - insights from actors & critics into the major roles
Judith Cook
Used Copy
$21.99
Acting & Audition books - Acting books
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
The Art of Theatre
Sarah Bernhardt
Used Copy
$35
The Actor's Ways and Means
Michael Redgrave with introduction by Vanessa Redgrave
Nick Hern Books
Written when Michael Redgrave was one of the world's most famous actors, this new edition makes an excellent foundation in a generation of European theatrical tradition for those embarking on a career in the...
$21.99
Games for Actors and Non-actors
Augusto Boal
Routledge
Written by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, this sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone - actors an...
$39.99
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
So You Want to be a Producer?
Lawrence Turman
A & C Black
Packed with information and advice from top Hollywood producers, writers and directors, this is a must-read for anyone interested in what it really takes to get a film made Chapters include - Finding yo...
$22.99
Playing Shakespeare
John Barton
Methuen
In the first half of the book, Barton attempts an objective analysis of how Shakespeare's text actually works, examining the use of verse and prose, set speeches and soliloquies, language and character In t...
$28.99
A Dream of Passion - The Development of the Method
Lee Strasberg
Little Brown
This is the definitive work of theatre practitioner Lee Strasberg, who through research and experimentation developed The MethodBeginning with his early experiences and his discovery of the actor's central p...
$24.99
The Art of the Actor
Jean Benedetti - HARDBACK
Methuen
The essential history of acting, from classical times to the present day A single-volume survey of the history of acting, this is an essential and practical guide for all students of the theatre Profess...
$31.99
Singing in Musical Theater - The Training of Singers and Actors
Joan Melton
al
What does it take to be a musical theatre performer? What kind of training is required to do eight shows a week acting, dancing, and singing in a wide variety of vocal styles? This insider's look into th...
$19.99
Stanislavski's Legacy - A Collection of Comments on a Variety of Aspects of an Actor's Life & Art
Constantin Stanislavski trans Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
Methuen
** 20% DISCOUNT ** No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His "method" - or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performan...
$14.99
Secrets of Voice-Over Success
Joan Baker
Sentient Publications
The inside how-to scoop on the lucrative career of voice-over acting told by the top talents in the field, including voice-over actors from Law and Order, ABC News, The Today Show, and The Sopranos An insp...
$18.99
The Moving Body - Le Corps Poetique - Teaching Creative Theatre
Jacques Lecoq
Methuen
"In life I want students to be alive, and on the stage I want them to be artists" Until his death in 1999, Jacques Lecoq taught indefatigably at the International Mime and Theatre school he founded in 1956 ...
$25.99
Strasberg at the Actors Studio
Robert H. Hethmon - ed
Theatre Communications
"A fascinating close-up of Mr Stasberg's philosophy of theatre and method of working with actors ... It goes beyond theatre, with comments on reality, truth, Mrs Sarah Siddons, Tintoretto, fastball pitchers,...
$18.99