The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
- ISBN-10
- 0345805682
- ISBN-13
- 9780345805683
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Authors
- William Esper, Damon Dimarco
Description
"Celebrated acting teacher Bill Esper's step-by-step approach to the central problem in acting -- learning to play a character -- as taught in the second year of his acting class"--
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