A Practical Handbook for the Actor

Scott Zigler, Robert Previtio, Nathaniel Pollack, Madeleine Olnek, Lee Michael Cohn, Melissa Bruder

ISBN 10: 0394744128 / ISBN 13: 9780394744124

Editore: Vintage, 1986

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Riassunto:

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 Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to "find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play." The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book.

Informazioni sull?autore: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, and Scott Zigler are actors who worked with David Mamet and W. H. Macy at New York University and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Members of the Practical Aesthetics Workshop, they helped found the Atlantic Theatre Company with Mamet and Macy in 1985.

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Titolo: A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Casa editrice: Vintage
Data di pubblicazione: 1986
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good