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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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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.

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A study of the use of rhythm in European actor training and performance since the mid-19th century.

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A study of the use of rhythm in European actor training and performance since the mid-19th century.

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Secrets of Performing Confidence covers the majority of practical performing and psychological issues that concern performers in an accessible and practical way.

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This reference is a convenient and practical guide for actors faced with the task of playing Shakespeare's characters.

The volume begins with an overview of Elizabethan theatrical conventions, including the training of actors.

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A practical guide to singing for actors and stage performers.

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Speaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. The method employed in this book is already and increasingly being used by instructors on major actor training programs in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK.

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Stand-Up! is the first book to both analyse the background of stand-up comedy and take us inside the world of being a solo comedian

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Between 1935 and 1938, Stanislavski did his final work in Moscow with a group of 11 young actors and directors trained in his special "system". This volume contains a full translation of verbatim transcriptions of Stanislavski's notes and practical exercises from these sessions.

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Although already an accomplished artist, Vasili Toporkov was forced to retrain as an actor under Stanislavski's rigorous guidance. This is Toporkov's account of this learning process, offering an insight into Stanislavski's legendary "system".

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This handbook is a companion volume to Stanislavski's three teaching books. It is a selection of articles, speeches, notes and memoirs written between 1898 and his death in 1938, and includes a final section in which Stanislavski envisages the theatre and actors of the future.