Acting category: 934 books
The Improv Handbook
The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate...
Richard III in German (King Richard III)
The tragedy of King Richard III
Language: German
Release Date: April 24, 2013
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Richard III is a drama in five acts by William Shakespeare. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England, and is believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is sometimes classified as a tragedy (as in the...
Russians in Britain
British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
From Komisarjevsky in the 1920s, to Cheek by Jowl’s Russian ‘sister company’ almost a century later, Russian actor training has had a unique influence on modern British theatre. Russians in Britain, edited by Jonathan Pitches, is the first work of its type to identify a relationship between...
by Chris Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book in the NHB Drama Games series, this title is for teachers and workshop leaders working with difficult or reluctant students, youth groups, young offenders, and all those who seem intent on saying 'no' to whatever is offered them.
For these groups,...
by Thomas Eccleshare
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
On top of a mountain in the middle of a blizzard, you see a figure: eight foot tall, with white, matted hair covering his body. He stands upright on two legs. You see him. He sees you. But who will believe you and how far can you trust what you see?
by Simon W. Golding
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Life After Kes examines the history and legacy of the 1969 award-winning British film, Kes, about a boy’s (Billy Casper) relationship with a kestrel. This fascinating book not only pays homage to the vision and extraordinary talent involved both in front and behind the camera but also looks at subsequent...
La Vie de Galilée (Bertolt Brecht - mise en scène Jean-François Sivadier - 2015)
Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Une fiche de référence sur La Vie de Galilée de Bertolt Brecht, un spectacle mis en scène par Jean-François Sivadier.
À l’été 2002, Jean-François Sivadier triomphait au festival d’Avignon. Quelques mois seulement après l’avoir créée au Théâtre national de Bretagne, à Rennes,...
by Michael Pennington, Julian Curry
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Michael Pennington discusses playing Timon of Athens, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles.
In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes of a landmark Shakespearean production, recreating...
Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre
Foreword by Ang Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The second edition of this elegant and accessible primer offers a helpful reference and resource for directing actors in film, television, and theatre, useful to directors, actors, and writers. Combining underlying theory with dozens of exercises designed to reveal the actor's craft, Lenore DeKoven...
Through the Body
A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In Through the Body, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of key practitioners of 20th-century theater including Artaud, Grotowski, Brook and Lecoq. She offers exercises that turn their theories into practice and explore their principles in action.
by Michael Boyd, Bryan Brown, Paul Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples,...
Cary Grant
La biografía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2013
«Todo el mundo quiere ser Cary Grant. Incluso yo quiero ser Cary Grant.»
Con estas palabras resumía el propio Cary Grant el atractivo y la fascinación que su personaje público despertó en todo el mundo a lo largo de varias décadas.
Considerado uno de los grandes mitos de la era...
Why Is That So Funny?
A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
A practical investigation of how comedy works, by a well-respected practitioner and teacher. With a Foreword by Toby Jones.
Comedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performances. For that reason, it is rarely written about in any systematic way. John Wright, founder of Trestle...
Fists upon a Star
A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from McCarthyism
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Fists upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastating experience with McCarthyism led her to flee to Canada. The memoir is as epic as America itself. Born in 1892 in the frontier society of Idaho, she became a suffragette in New York...