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The 1996 Tony Award winner for Best Play "unforgettable, worth swimming to New York to catch" (Benedict Nightingale)

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This study of the work of the European choreographer and pioneer of dance notation, Rudolf Laban, examines the many strands of his thinking and its application. It attempts to convey the full implications of his ideas about movement, not only for dancers but also for actors and directors of drama.

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Drawing on research into how the brain copes and responds in high-stress situations, Mastering the Audition dissects the audition process and offers original solutions to help master its art.

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Baldwin (a theater historian at Boston Conservatory) presents a study of director Michel Saint-Denis (1897-1971) whose productions of Oedipus , Le Viol de Lucrece , and Stravinsky's oratorio Oedipus Rex , set high standards. As a director, Saint-Denis was involved in every aspect of theatrical prese

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Presenting an overview of different types and styles of contemporary drama, Modern Voice, guides actors, directors, lecturers, teachers, trainers and coaches through the challenges of voicing modern texts.

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This work provides the actor with unusual Shakespearean audition material. There are 50 speeches in total. Alongside each speech is a helpful character description, brief explanation of the text, and notes on obscure words, phrases and references.

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Written to provide the actor with fresh and unusual Shakespearean audition material, this book provides fifty speeches with a guide to selecting, preparing and performing their selection.

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A practical masterclass on movement from the Head of Movement at RADA, complete with video examples on a DVD. The book provides a complete curriculum on movement training: from pure movement, to games, to Grotowski, Alexander, dance and yoga.

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Neil Rutherford's book provides a unique perspective on the musical theatre audition process from the viewpiont of one of the most influential and commercial casting directors in the West End, who has also had extensive experience as a professional actor.

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On Playing Shakespeare speaks to actors and directors who face the contemporary challenges of playing Shakespeare and to Shakespeareans and scholars with more general interests in the history, technique, and tradition of Shakespearean acting.

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Tells the story of performance, describing the development, from ancient Greece to contemporary stages and film, of western Europe's variety of acting styles. Using the idea of a culture's shared 'language of gesture', this work explores the growth, evolution and impact these languages have had on our engagement with and understanding of theatre.

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A practical book on the Alexander Technique for actors and acting/movement teachers.

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A collection of acting exercises from around the world. There are voice warm-ups and bodywork through to interacting with space and creating characters all drawing on influences from Japanese Butoh to African dance, Shakespearean verse and children's games.

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Presents over thirty extracts from the plays for radio and stage. Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television, this collection of extracts is helpful for audition and performance work. Each extract is accompanied by a brief introduction and features an essay on the challenges, skills and rewards of radio acting.

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Over thirty monologues for women drawn from contemporary radio and stage plays. Draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage.

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Presents over thirty extracts from the plays for radio and stage. Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television, this collection of extracts is helpful for audition and performance work. It is divided into three sections of duologues: male/female; male/male, and female/female, and features introductions to each piece.

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Vince introduces readers to the sources of information available to the theatre historian, and to some of the methods that have been used in the interpretation of that evidence.