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How to Make It in Musicals
Michael Allen
Brilliantly researched, and drawing on the
expertise of dozens of show business professionals, this friendly manual gives advice
and guidance on vocal training, finding a good dance studio, learning to act, and
much, much more. $29.95.
Between Two Silences:
Talking With Peter Brook
"This book of Brook in dialogue is an opening to amazement for all of us
who work in the theatre, or teach it or think about it." Ranging widely over
many topics, this book is the result of twelve hours of spontaneous answers and questions
with theatre students in a university setting. $25.95.
Being an Actor
Simon Callow
Part autobiography, part analysis, part manifesto,
this astonishingly honest book exposes all the pressures, rewards and insecurity
of being an actor. $18.99.
Acting Skills for Life
Ron Cameron
Integrates personal growth and the process
of creative drama with the more formal skills required for stage production. A practical
book, full of suggestions for drama exercises and improvisations and includes practical
information for teachers working with students on stage productions. $29.99.
To The Actor:
On The Technique of Acting
Michael Chekhov
A revised and expanded edition of the classic text originally published in 1953,
showing Chekhov's simple and practical method for actors who want to train their
imagination and body to fulfill their potential. Softcover, $29.95.
Callback: How To Prepare For The Callback to Succeed in Getting the Part
Ginger Howard Friedman
The techniques used in the author's exercises can be used to prepare for virtually
any role - stage, screen, television, commercials. " ...one of the most innovative
and important teachers of our time." Jerry Orbach (Law & Order).
$16.95.
Also by Ginger Howard Friedman: Casting Directors' Secrets: Inside Tips for
Successful Auditions $26.50, and The Perfect Monologue, $24.95.
Twentieth Century Actor Training
Alison Hodge, ed.
The most unique phenomenon of 20th century
theater making. Here, for the first time, the theories, training exercises, and productions
of fourteen of the century's key theater practitioners are analysed in a single volume.
$31.99.
The Moving Body:
Teaching Creative Theatre
Jacques Loco
In English for the first time, Lecoq's Le corps poetique shares his unique philosophy
of performance, improvisation, movement, and gesture. Neutral mask, character masks
and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia, clowns: all the famous Lecoq techniques
are included here. Hardcover, $41.95; Paperback, $26.95.
True and
False:
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
David Mamet
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand
up and stay out of school. With these words, one of the most brilliantly iconoclastic
playwrights takes on the art and profession of acting, in a book that is as shocking
as it is practical, witty as it is instructive and irreverent as it is inspiring.
$14.95.
The Actor's Survival Kit. 3rd ed.
Miriam Newhouse and Peter Messaline
Everything you need to know about making it
as an actor in Canada. $19.99.
How to Agent your Agent
Nancy Rainford
Rainford takes the reader behind the scenes to reveal the techniques, politics and
unspoken rules of agenting. Softcover, $28.95.
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers
Second Edition
James Thomas
Based on the premise that plays are objects of study in and of themselves, Script
Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers teaches a traditional system of
classifications that examines the written part of a play, excluding such considerations
as performance, scenery, or costuming. $65.95.
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