Breathe and Speak: Scenes for Actors

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This book is a collection of "open scenes" for actors. The scenes contain little to no stage directions and no indications regarding specific emotions. The actor learns to say "I don't know" to many details of the scene. This is on purpose. In this way the actor must trust both the text and him- or herself, his or her partner, and the moment.

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...these scenes are the sort of scenes that are needed in nearly every acting book, but which acting books, by their own lengths, cannot include. -- Deborah Kinghorn, University of New Hampshire

Author Bio

Marc Clopton studied with Gene Bua in Burbank, CA, and went on to teach in Gene's expanding studio. Marc has taught for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at Paramount Studies in Hollywood and in the UCLA Continuing Education Program. Marc has been teaching in Newburyport for nearly two decades.