Author: Jeff Seymour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692210253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
There is a sense that permeates most acting classes which promotes the idea that acting is hard and you need to do a bunch of traditional steps if you're ever going to get anywhere. The flame of this concept is kept lit for two reasons. One is tradition. Successful actors and teachers in our theatrical history supposedly believed in or espoused such ideas and two; it is easier for teachers and actors to follow a path that is well worn. Actors feel intimidated to challenge the ideas and teachings of past masters. But isn't that exactly how every field of endeavor evolves? Think of where we'd be in science or medicine or sports if no one questioned past methods or tried to discover new ones. This book will show you an approach that is direct and to the point, an approach that will be far easier to remember and utilize. We'll use real life. We call it acting only because people are watching. "If you're an actor, this book will restore your sanity." Steven Pressfield, Author: The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Real Life Actor
Author: Jeff Seymour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692210253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
There is a sense that permeates most acting classes which promotes the idea that acting is hard and you need to do a bunch of traditional steps if you're ever going to get anywhere. The flame of this concept is kept lit for two reasons. One is tradition. Successful actors and teachers in our theatrical history supposedly believed in or espoused such ideas and two; it is easier for teachers and actors to follow a path that is well worn. Actors feel intimidated to challenge the ideas and teachings of past masters. But isn't that exactly how every field of endeavor evolves? Think of where we'd be in science or medicine or sports if no one questioned past methods or tried to discover new ones. This book will show you an approach that is direct and to the point, an approach that will be far easier to remember and utilize. We'll use real life. We call it acting only because people are watching. "If you're an actor, this book will restore your sanity." Steven Pressfield, Author: The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Legend of Bagger Vance
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692210253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
There is a sense that permeates most acting classes which promotes the idea that acting is hard and you need to do a bunch of traditional steps if you're ever going to get anywhere. The flame of this concept is kept lit for two reasons. One is tradition. Successful actors and teachers in our theatrical history supposedly believed in or espoused such ideas and two; it is easier for teachers and actors to follow a path that is well worn. Actors feel intimidated to challenge the ideas and teachings of past masters. But isn't that exactly how every field of endeavor evolves? Think of where we'd be in science or medicine or sports if no one questioned past methods or tried to discover new ones. This book will show you an approach that is direct and to the point, an approach that will be far easier to remember and utilize. We'll use real life. We call it acting only because people are watching. "If you're an actor, this book will restore your sanity." Steven Pressfield, Author: The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Life of an Actor
Author: Pierce Egan
Publisher: London : C.S. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Fictional account of an actor's life at the beginning of the 19th century.
Publisher: London : C.S. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Fictional account of an actor's life at the beginning of the 19th century.
A Young Actor's Scene Book
Author: Barbara Marchant
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810839021
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents more than two dozen play scenes designed to help young actors improve their stage skills, including selections for beginning and more experienced performers.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810839021
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents more than two dozen play scenes designed to help young actors improve their stage skills, including selections for beginning and more experienced performers.
Scenes from the Life of an Actor
Author: George Handel Hill (known as Yankee Hill)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Invisible Actor
Author: Yoshi Oida
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350148288
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. Written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides contextual commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury Revelations edition, Yoshi Oida revisits the questions that have informed his career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has shaped the wider contours of his life.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350148288
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. Written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides contextual commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury Revelations edition, Yoshi Oida revisits the questions that have informed his career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has shaped the wider contours of his life.
Life and Acting
Author: Jack Garfein
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126737
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
"Jack Garfein's book is a touching reminder of our early attempts at creating theater without artifice. It is good to know that he is still working hard at it."---Ben Gazzara --
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126737
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
"Jack Garfein's book is a touching reminder of our early attempts at creating theater without artifice. It is good to know that he is still working hard at it."---Ben Gazzara --
Strasberg at the Actors Studio
Author: Lee Strasberg
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559360227
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Transcriptions of actual tuition sessions by the originator of Method Acting, tutor to such talents as Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Dustin Hoffman.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559360227
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Transcriptions of actual tuition sessions by the originator of Method Acting, tutor to such talents as Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Dustin Hoffman.
I an Actor
Author: Nicholas Craig
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN: 9780413777263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Another great actor explores himself and his profession in this terrifically scathing parody of the theatrical memoir. Hilarious, vindictive and very accurate.
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN: 9780413777263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Another great actor explores himself and his profession in this terrifically scathing parody of the theatrical memoir. Hilarious, vindictive and very accurate.
Scenes and Monologues for Young Actors
Author: Kent R. Brown
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871299581
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871299581
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Existential Actor
Author: Jeff Zinn
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is a book for the thinking actor, and the finest actors I've known are just that. The best actors bring it all together body, heart, spirit, and mind. This book is for the actor who thinks about craft and influence, who thinks about the relationship of performance to living, who thinks about doing and what that doing means. Acting is a metaphor and it's a mirror, and, so, a theory of acting, if true, shows us to ourselves. Jeff Zinn knows this. He knows it as an actor, director, teacher, and thinker. His theory of everything is simple and revelatory. (from the foreword by Todd London)
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is a book for the thinking actor, and the finest actors I've known are just that. The best actors bring it all together body, heart, spirit, and mind. This book is for the actor who thinks about craft and influence, who thinks about the relationship of performance to living, who thinks about doing and what that doing means. Acting is a metaphor and it's a mirror, and, so, a theory of acting, if true, shows us to ourselves. Jeff Zinn knows this. He knows it as an actor, director, teacher, and thinker. His theory of everything is simple and revelatory. (from the foreword by Todd London)