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Essential Acting: A Practical Handbook for Actors, Teachers and Directors
How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process?
Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop. RADA's Brigid Panet has distilled nearly 60 years of acting, directing and actor training into a unique recipe which brilliantly combines the teachings of Stanislavsky and Laban into an invaluable practical resource.
These exercises are built around the need for simple, achievable techniques that can be applied by actors, teachers and directors to answer the myriad requirements of actor training. The goal is to produce a continuous level of achievement,
How to rehearseHow to work with a textHow to audition for drama schoolHow to access the truth of feelings and actions.Essential Acting will be a must-have purchase for anyone looking for a comprehensive study guide to the necessary work of the actor.
Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop. RADA's Brigid Panet has distilled nearly 60 years of acting, directing and actor training into a unique recipe which brilliantly combines the teachings of Stanislavsky and Laban into an invaluable practical resource.
These exercises are built around the need for simple, achievable techniques that can be applied by actors, teachers and directors to answer the myriad requirements of actor training. The goal is to produce a continuous level of achievement,
How to rehearseHow to work with a textHow to audition for drama schoolHow to access the truth of feelings and actions.Essential Acting will be a must-have purchase for anyone looking for a comprehensive study guide to the necessary work of the actor.
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326 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 30, 2008
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September 28, 2023
As an author of spec fiction, I find this book remarkable for my research of an actor's lifestyle. The author provides vivid descriptions of master classes used in RADA. The majority of those master classes I tried to do it myself and developed a better understanding of the actor's live.
It also gave me a switch of mindset and improved my developmental edits comments; now, looking at the characters in the manuscript my mind swirls to see the settings of scene and searches the ways to make them more engaging: add more dynamics and action in them.
Also, the master classes the author provided helped me to gain more self-confidence and mentally prepared me for the future marketing of my books in social media.
Highly recommend this book for all aspiring authors, at least, to get more confidence in their social media presence.
It also gave me a switch of mindset and improved my developmental edits comments; now, looking at the characters in the manuscript my mind swirls to see the settings of scene and searches the ways to make them more engaging: add more dynamics and action in them.
Also, the master classes the author provided helped me to gain more self-confidence and mentally prepared me for the future marketing of my books in social media.
Highly recommend this book for all aspiring authors, at least, to get more confidence in their social media presence.
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