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How to Make it in Musicals
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.

 

 

Acting for the Camera
Acting for the Camera: Revised edition
Tony Barr
A book for all actors on how to adapt their craft to the needs of the camera and how to make it in TV or film acting, with scores of insights, techniques, and practical advice from pros in the field. $20.00.

 

 

Between Two Silences
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
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
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.



20th Century Actor Training
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.

 

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The Moving Body
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
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

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.

 

 



99 Film Scenes for Actors
Angela Nicholas
Actors will find emotionally-charged scenes from big studio megahits and small gems from acclaimed independent films. $7.99.


How to Agent Your Agent
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...
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.

  

Secrets of Screen Acting
Secrets of Screen Acting
Patrick Turner
Using anecdotes and specially commissioned drawings, this book illustrates points, concisely defining the differences between stage and screen, and between film and television. Includes a wealth of exercises that help the beginner and expert alike to improve. $32.99.

 

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