Acting Techniques

Annie Morrison, creator of the Morrison Bone Prop, abandons the notion that language and thought are mainly processed in the left cerebral hemisphe...

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of...

What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne ...

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills As an actor at any level...

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywoods glamorous golden age through the st...

An exciting and invaluable collection of audition speeches, all chosen from plays produced by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, spanning...

This encouraging, no-nonsense guide walks you through the whole process of applying for drama school - including doing your initial research, selec...

Sea Struck brings alive the final decades of square-rigged sail through the accounts of voyages made on three ships by three young men from Massach...

This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitiv...

Fists Upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastating experience with McCarthyi...

The Alexander Technique is a long-established, accessible and highly effective way of learning to change and retrain postural and behavioural habit...

A treasure trove of advice, support and encouragement that no performer should be without. Honest, witty and direct, The Golden Rules of Acting is ...

Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 ye...

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 fo...

Foreword by Ellen Page, star of Inception, Juno and X-Men The perfect humorous gift for students, actors and anyone with an interest in theatre. I...

Hi, I'm Jenny Mollen, an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. I'm also a wife, married to someone more famous than me, which is especially ann...

A how-to guide, full of classroom exercises ... the book, which is meant to be used by students and instructors alike, is a wild success--the writ...

Laban''s The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepted as the standard work on his conception of human...

Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argu...

Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argu...

A comprehensive study of Nicole Kidmans work through the lens of ten of her most iconic roles Nicole Kidman (b.1967), internationally renowned and ...

Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represen...

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills As an actor at any level...

How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What's the effect o...

From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this revised edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor...