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The Actor's Workbook: A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising + Video

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Actor's Workbook: A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising + Video
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alex Clifton
SeriesTheatre Arts Workbooks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreActing techniques
ISBN/Barcode 9781472530042
ClassificationsDewey:792.028
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 5 May 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting. The book presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting skills, offers techniques for developing an authored role and models for devising new work. These techniques are based on the practices of Konstantin Stanislavski and his recent theatrical descendants including Uta Hagen, Sanford Meisner, Michael Chekhov and others. The exercises in the book are outlined in a student-centred approach, offering not only in-class exercises, but also pre-class exercises, educational frameworks, teaching-tips, suggested texts through which to apply the work, follow-up exercises and suggestions for further reading in each chapter. Enabling and guiding the actor's sustainable, communicable, believable transformation into an imagined reality, this workbook is filled with powerful and precise acting tools, each underpinned by a rigorous and well-explained philosophy of practice. The Actor's Workbook includes video of the author teaching the exercises, with professional actors demonstrating the techniques to be learned.

Author Biography

Alex Clifton has worked as an assistant director at the Royal National Theatre; resident director at English National Opera; and freelance theatre and opera director. He is now an Acting Tutor at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), specialising in teaching Stanislavski's technique. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Higher Education and a trustee of the International Schools' Theatre Association. Alex is co-founder and Artistic Director of The Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, the UK's leading open air theatre outside London.