Acting Techniques

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...

Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined offers a new set of exercises for coaching actors when working on producti...

This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of per...

A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of methodness to entrenched understandings of screen performance still d...

This is a terrific guide for young actors...I read it cover to cover and then went out and bought copies for all my kids because, truthfully, it pu...

Musical theatre is a tough and over-crowded industry. Yet, despite the huge competition, many performers find auditioning difficult with little kno...

Listening and Talking: A Pathway to Acting provides undergraduate acting students with a clear, achievable, step-by-step way to approach the work o...

A smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation. Classic improv games and variations Telling stories a...

This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, part of the bestselling Drama Games series, offers dozens of games to help bring Shakespeare'...

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...

American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers provides a comprehensive guide to learning a General American accent, made specifically ...

Playing Shakespeares Lovers examines Shakespeares romantic characters from multiple perspectives. Contributing actors, directors, educators and sch...

This book is the broad application of queer theories to the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness, the only author in...

The essays in Playing Shakespeares Villains trouble our assumptions of whatand whoconstitutes villainy in Shakespeares works, through probing and p...

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...

Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. Border-crossing, cross-cultural exchange in...

WHAT do actors need to learn at this precise moment?WHY do they need to learn it at this precise moment?HOW best can I provide them with the most b...