The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
- ISBN-10
- 0345805690
- ISBN-13
- 9780345805690
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-08
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Authors
- William Esper, Damon Dimarco
Description
William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Esper’s first book, The Actor’s Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. The Actor’s Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper’s second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class. Esper’s training builds on Sanford Meisner’s legendary exercises, a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors. His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role, helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.
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