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Acting Books
Creating A Role
This volume completes, with An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, the trilogy in which Stanislavski set down his life's accomplishment. Creating a Role describes the elaborate preparation that precedes actual performance. Stanislavski here relates the techniques he describes in his preceding books to analyzing specific plays and their roles.
Accents: A Manual for Acting
This practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents available, now increased by a third in this revised printing. As before, the accents range from regional U.S. and British dialects to European accents that include, among others, the Germanic, Slavic and Romance Languages. Completing his around-the-world journey, the author then covers the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Includes two CDs.
The Power of The Actor
The Power of the Actor guides the reader to dynamic and effective results. For many of today's major talents, the Chubbuck Technique is the first choice - the leading edge of acting for the 21st century. Previous generations of actors were steeped in the teaching traditions of Stanislavski, Meisner and Strasberg. Taking the theories of these masters into a new realm of psychological and behavioral study, industry veteran Ivana Chubbuck has developed a curriculum that moves acting to the next step: how to utilize the inner pain and emotions, not as an end in itself, but as a way to drive and win a goal. The result recreates human behavior in it's most fundamentally accurate and compelling form, taking the reader to the source of what motivates real behavior.
The Complete Professional Audition
This one-of-a-kind guidebook gives young actors the edge in both musical theater and straight play audtitions, beginning with that daunting first step: finding the perfect music or monologue. Here is inside information on who does the casting and what they're looking for, and seasoned advice on how to showcase your unique talent in a two-minute audition, how to cope with nerves and trust yourself under pressure, and how to be prepared and professional from the moment you enter the room.
Challenge For The Actor
Uta Hagen, one of the world's most renowned stage actresses, has also taught acting for more than forty years at the HB Studio in New York. In her new book, A Challenge for the Actor, she greatly expands her thinking about acting in a work that brings the full flowering of her artistry, both as an actor and as a teacher. She raises the issue of the actor's goals and examines the specifics of the actor's techniques. She goes on to consider the actor's relationship to the physical and psychological senses. There is a brilliantly conceived section on the animation of the body and mind, of listening and talking, and the concept of expectation. But perhaps the most useful sections in this book are the exercises that Uta Hagen has created and elaborated to help the actor learn his craft. The exercises deal with developing the actor's physical destination in a role; making changes in the self serviceable in the creation of a character; recreating physical sensations; bringing the outdoors on stage; finding occupation while waiting; talking to oneself and the audience; and employing historical imagination.
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