The Actor’s Workbook
eBook - PDF

The Actor’s Workbook

A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising + Video

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Actor’s Workbook

A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising + Video

About this book

The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting. The book presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting skills, offers techniques for developing an authored role and models for devising new work. These techniques are based on the practices of Konstantin Stanislavski and his recent theatrical descendants including Uta Hagen, Sanford Meisner, Michael Chekhov and others. The exercises in the book are outlined in a student-centred approach, offering not only in-class exercises, but also pre-class exercises, educational frameworks, teaching-tips, suggested texts through which to apply the work, follow-up exercises and suggestions for further reading in each chapter. Enabling and guiding the actor's sustainable, communicable, believable transformation into an imagined reality, this workbook is filled with powerful and precise acting tools, each underpinned by a rigorous and well-explained philosophy of practice. The Actor's Workbook includes video of the author teaching the exercises, with professional actors demonstrating the techniques to be learned.

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Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. On reflection
  10. Part One The Actor
  11. 1 Relinquish
  12. 2 Imagine
  13. 3 Arrive
  14. 4 Adapt
  15. 5 Play
  16. Part Two The Role
  17. 6 The Map
  18. 7 A Route
  19. 8 The Journey
  20. Part Three The Story
  21. 9 Design
  22. 10 Construct
  23. Conclusion
  24. Links to Workbook Videos
  25. Appendix 1 100 character questions
  26. Appendix 2 Glossary
  27. Appendix 3 Bibliography and Resources
  28. Index