Acting Techniques

This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, part of the bestselling Drama Games series, offers 80 games and exercises to explore the fund...

'There is no acting, only reacting to the space.' In his bestselling book The Actor and the Target, Declan Donnellan laid out a fresh and radical ...

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...

A collection of texts by Eugenio Barba reconstructing the history of his relationships with the Asian classical theatres. Interweaving stories of j...

Advanced Consciousness Training for Actors: Meditation Techniques for the Performing Artist explores theories and techniques for deepening the indi...

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...

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

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...

Roy Hart’s revolutionary work on the human voice through extended vocal technique and the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition has influenced several generation...

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

This book confronts and analyzes the systemic racism that confronts actors of color in the USA through interviews with leading performers in the na...

This book confronts and analyzes the systemic racism that confronts actors of color in the USA through interviews with leading performers in the na...

How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process?Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and te...

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...

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

Romeo and Juliet always use ‘thou’ to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakespeare to do this. Why? All the women in Richard III...

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recog...

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

The Art of Broadsword Fighting for Stage and Screen provides historical and contemporary techniques and styles for the safe training and use of the...

The Art of Broadsword Fighting for Stage and Screen provides historical and contemporary techniques and styles for the safe training and use of the...

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

Stanislavski: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the life, thought and impact of Konstantin Stanislavski. Regarded by many as a great innova...

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...

"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 p...

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...

The Third Space serves a crucial need for contemporary performers by providing an interdisciplinary and physiovocal approach to training. It is a n...

The Third Space serves a crucial need for contemporary performers by providing an interdisciplinary and physiovocal approach to training. It is a n...

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...

What are the key elements that go into creating a work of art for the stage? Which are the most productive conditions and methods of rehearsal? In ...

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

Playing Shakespeare’s Lovers examines Shakespeare’s romantic characters from multiple perspectives. Contributing actors, directors, educators and s...

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 Shakespeare’s Villains trouble our assumptions of what—and who—constitutes "villainy" in Shakespeare’s works, through probing...

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