Acting

This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Throughout these pages Meisner is delightalways empathizing with his students and urging th...

Respect for Acting "This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end." Publishers Weekly "Hagen adds to the large cor...

Actors need actions. They cannot act adjectives, they need verbs. This thesaurus of active verbs helps the actor to refine the actionword until they hit exactly the right one to make the action come alive....

?I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don?t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.??Larry Moss, from the IntroductionWhen Oscarwinning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss?s guidance as key to their careermaking performances. There is a twoyear waiting list fo...

Here is the thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater.Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, fil...

The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream role! Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment before, how to use humour; create mystery; how to develop a distinct style; and how to evaluate ...

A classic text for theatre and film it has sold 100,000 copies in its first edition....