Acting Techniques

Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Broadway, Hollywood, and television star Robert Guillaume. Ten months after suffering a stroke, ...

With over 100 movies to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend and British national treasure Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insig...

...a lot of these things, these impulses, are healthy things, but they just get distorted. Or maybe it's the world that gets - is - distorted, but ...

Performing Live Comedy is for anyone who has ever thought about getting up onstage and being funny or for those who have already started. It offers...

In The Viewpoints Book, first published in the United States, acclaimed theatre directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau introduce the history, termin...

A tight throat; held breath; stiff muscles; stage fright: impediments to performance come in many guises, but they all spring from the same sourcet...

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...