Acting Techniques

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, 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...

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...