A Practical Handbook for the Actor
- ISBN-10
- 0307499138
- ISBN-13
- 9780307499134
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04-25
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Authors
- Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek
Description
This simple and essential book about the craft of acting 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.
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