Acting Techniques

Intercultural Acting and Performer Training is the first collection of essays from a diverse, international group of authors and practitioners focu...

a work on the art and craft of comedy as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski and Chekhov Oxford Theatre CompanionIn 1939, a young, i...

Theatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actors believable body. T...

What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that st...

A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and artists united b...

Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key ...

A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film...

Your Body Knows provides the foundation actors need to move with ease and power. It is a practical guide to movement starting at the very beginning...

Make a career out of your voice? Easy. Voice acting is like acting, but just using your voice! It's a unique career where the actor's voice can be ...

Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters...

Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and ...

In this follow up to his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski develop his influential 'system' of acting by exploring the imaginative ...

This wide-ranging volume explores the technical and physical aspects of voice as a craft, questioning its definitions, its historical presence, tra...

We train because we are human and we become human because we train. This is the surprising and original conclusion of Anatomy of Performance Trai...

After training and studying for years, youve earned a degree: now what? How to get a job and have a career as an actor is the number one question f...

Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting ...

Despite being roundly cited as much harder to perform than its dramatic counterpart, comic acting is traditionally seen as a performance genre that...