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  • Play and Performance

    Play and Culture Studies

    by Carrie Lobman, Barbara E. O'Neill, Jim Johnson, Milda Bredikyte, Pentti Hakkarainen, Ruth Harman, Kristen French, Nicole Schectman, Jennifer Knudsen0, Sally Bailey1, Paul Murray2, Christine LaCerva3, Christine Helm4, Thomas Henricks5, Stacy DeZutter6, Debora B. Wisneski7, Ana Marjanovic-Shane8 ...
    Series series Play and Culture Studies
    Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from a range of theoretical and practical perspectives. The chapters cover an array of practices that can ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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    by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler ...
    For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Freeing Shakespeare's Voice

    The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

    by Kristin Linklater ...
    A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own. ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Improv Book

    Improvisation for Theatre, Comedy, Education and Life

    by Alison Goldie ...
    A smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation.Classic improv games and variationsTelling stories and creating charactersUsing improv to make theatre and comedy, from monologues to full-scale productionsAn asset to students and teachers of improvisation in schools, drama schools, higher education and theatre groups, both professional and amateur. It will ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Presence of the Actor

    by Joseph Chaikin ...
    Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Script Analysis for Theatre

    Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production

    by Professor Robert Knopf ...
    Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on concepts derived from Stanislavski's system of acting and method acting, the book focuses on action ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay

    by Craig Turner, Tony Soper ...
    Featuring period drawings and prints of swordplay, this book examines and compares three Elizabethan fencing manuals written in English before 1600: Giacomo Di Grassi’s His True Arte of Defense (1594), Vincentio Saviolo’s His Practice in Two Bookes (1595), and George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defence and Bref Instructions upon My Paradoxes of Defence (1599).More than a technical manual on swordplay, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Secrets of Performing Confidence

    For musicians, singers, actors and dancers

    by Mr Andrew Evans ...
    What does it take to control your performance nerves, to feel confident when facing audiences, and to acquire mastery of your talent? How can you feel secure in the knowledge that you are giving your best?This second edition of Secrets of Performing Confidence helps you to find solutions to these questions, and shows you skills and techniques for improving your motivation, confidence, creativity ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Singing on Stage

    An Actor's Guide

    by Jane Streeton, Philip Raymond ...
    Series series RADA Guides
    Singing on stage can be a daunting prospect for actors, particularly for those who have not sung before. Yet singing should be an essential part of every actor's toolkit.Singing on Stage: An Actor's Guide gives an insight for the first time into the vocal techniques and practical approaches that have been developed over generations as an integral part of the training at the Royal Academy of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema

    by Murray Leeder ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” or “haunted” medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the skeletons of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting

    Edited by Simon Williams ...
    Acting is widely acknowledged to be the central art of the theatre and has a long and vibrant history. With over one thousand entries, this is the first encyclopedia of stage actors and acting around the world. More than one hundred renowned international contributors provide biographical, historical and technical information about actors both familiar and obscure whose work has been crucial in ... Read more

    $170.59 USD

  • Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work

    Foreign Bodies of Knowledge

    by Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, this book redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent intercultural actors, this study draws from original interviews with Ang Gey Pin (formerly with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards) and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD