Acting Techniques

This comprehensive text traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa / New Zealand, whose Indigenous Mori practitioners have made a sig...

This comprehensive text traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa / New Zealand, whose Indigenous Mori practitioners have made a sig...

This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how acto...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...

This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the fiel...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his ...

In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his ...

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, per...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

This book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei Tcherkasski carefully...

Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It covers fundamental skills for novice actors, prac...

In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight...

Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into...

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowskis work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued...

Reframing Acting in the Digital Age: Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy refocuses how actors work in TV, film, and stage. In this refresh...

This book approaches film and television acting from an actor's perspective rather than that of an audience member, and therefore theorizes how scr...

Actors and Audiences explores the exchanges between those on and off the stage that fill the atmosphere with energy and vitality. Caroline Heim uti...

Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into...

Movement: Onstage and Off is the complete guide for actors to the most effective techniques for developing a fully expressive body. It is a compreh...

Acting Reframes presents theatre and film practitioners with a methodology for using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as a tool to aid their prac...

In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight...

Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning builds on the vocabulary of simple action verbs to generate an entire set of practical ...

For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actors art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-re...

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed inte...