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The Renaissance Engravers (Hardcover): Charmian Mezentseva, Jp A Calosse The Renaissance Engravers (Hardcover)
Charmian Mezentseva, Jp A Calosse
R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Improvise - Scene from the Inside Out (Paperback, 2nd): Mick Napier Improvise - Scene from the Inside Out (Paperback, 2nd)
Mick Napier; Foreword by Stephen Colbert
R612 R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Save R32 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Mime Book (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Claude Kipnis The Mime Book (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Claude Kipnis
R526 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R34 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The great French mime performer, Claude Kipnis, reveals the mechanisms and techniques of mime in an easy-to-understand translation. This is not a theoretical "art of" book, but a functional "how to" and "why to" instructional guide. Individual exercises are included, together with detailed coverage of body movements, the illusion and how to create a world. We know of no other book that so comprehensively explains how the functions of mime are achieved. Certainly a basic text for any aspiring mime.

Introduction to Speechwork for Actors - An Inclusive Approach (Hardcover): Ron Carlos Introduction to Speechwork for Actors - An Inclusive Approach (Hardcover)
Ron Carlos
R2,328 Discovery Miles 23 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility. Because of that, generations of actors have felt disconnected from their own identities and acting choices. This much-needed textbook redresses that trend and encourages actors to achieve intelligibility through rigorous language analysis and an exploration of their own accent and articulation practices. Following an acting class model, where you first analyze the script then reveal yourself through it, this work breaks down a process for analyzing language in a way that excites the imagination. Guiding the student through the labyrinth of abstract concepts and terms, readers are delivered into the practicality of exercises and explorations, giving them self-awareness that enables them to make their own speech come alive. Informed throughout by notes from the author's own extensive experience working with directors and acting teachers, this book serves as an ideal speech-training resource for the 21st -century actor, and includes specially commissioned online videos demonstrating key exercises.

Credibility - A Recipe for the Beginning Actor (Hardcover): Jim Ryan Credibility - A Recipe for the Beginning Actor (Hardcover)
Jim Ryan
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Why Do Actors Train? - Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers (Hardcover): Brad Krumholz Why Do Actors Train? - Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers (Hardcover)
Brad Krumholz
R2,683 Discovery Miles 26 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How are we to understand the actor's work as a fully embodied process? 'Embodied cognition' is a branch of contemporary philosophy which attempts to frame human understanding as a fully embodied interaction with the environment. Engaging with ideas of contemporary significance from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy, Why Do Actors Train? challenges outmoded mind/body dualistic notions that permeate common conceptions of how actors work. Theories of embodiment are drawn up to shed important light on the ways and reasons actors do what they do. Through detailed, step-by-step analyses of specific actor-training exercises, the author examines the tools that actors use to perform roles. This book provides theatre practitioners with a new lens to re-examine their craft, offering a framework to understand the art form as one that is fundamentally grounded in embodied experience.

Audition Speeches for 6-16 Year Olds - 50+ audition pieces for actors and actresses (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Jean Marlow Audition Speeches for 6-16 Year Olds - 50+ audition pieces for actors and actresses (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jean Marlow
R2,507 Discovery Miles 25 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Intended for students and children taking part in speech and drama competitions and exams, this book contains a range of audition speeches. It includes female, male and unisex speeches selected from both plays and children's books. Where relevant the author has indicated how a speech could be shortened for younger children. There is also an introductory section with contributions from Alan Ayckbourn, Carol Schroder (teacher and examiner for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), Richard Carpenter (TV writer) and Ed Wilson (Director of the National Youth Theatre) and senior casting directors for the RSC, TV and film. This edition has been freshly revised to include 10 new speeches from well known recent productions as well as children's books including Harry Potter. 'A superb compilation' Amateur Stage

Theater Geek - The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor (Paperback): Mickey Rapkin Theater Geek - The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor (Paperback)
Mickey Rapkin
R480 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before there was "Glee "or "American Idol, "there was Stagedoor Manor, a theater camp in the Catskills where big-time Hollywood casting directors came to find the next generation of stars. It's where Natalie Portman, Robert Downey, Jr., Zach Braff, Mandy Moore, Lea Michele, and many others got their start as kids. At age thirty-one, Mickey Rapkin, a senior editor at "GQ "and self-proclaimed theater geek, was lucky enough to go, too, when he followed three determined teen actors through the rivalries, heartbreak, and triumphs of a summer at Stagedoor Manor.
Every summer since 1975, a new crop of campers has entered Stagedoor Manor to begin an intense, often wrenching introduction to professional theater. The offspring of Hollywood players like Ron Howard, Nora Ephron, and Bruce Willis work alongside kids on scholarship. Some campers have agents, others are just beginning. The faculty--all seasoned professionals--demand adult-size dedication and performances from the kids. Add in talent scouts from Disney and Paradigm and you have an intense, exciting environment where some thrive and others fail. Eye-opening, funny, and full of drama and heart, "Theater Geek "offers an illuminating romp through the world of serious child actors.

Group Improvisation - The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games (Paperback, 2): Peter Gwinn Group Improvisation - The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games (Paperback, 2)
Peter Gwinn
R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who would have thought that participating in group improv could be so enlightening and rewarding? Peter Gwinn and his colleagues at the i.O. Theatre in Chicago developed The Group Mind to create a new awareness in the mind and spirit of any group or team. The Group Mind, the Holy Grail of improvisation, is created by a synergy among improv participants. It's like ESP. It's the feeling of being part of a greater entity, a sense of excitement, belonging, importance that takes teamwork to a new level. Over forty improv games are included for developing group chemistry: creation, bonding, dynamics, energy, focus and more. Techniques are discussed for breaking the ice, agreement, listening and support, teawork, quick thinking and having fun! Sample chapters: An Introduction to Mind Reading. The Morale Majority. The Games and Their Explanations, Bonding, Focus, Awareness, Creation, Energy, Dynamics, Party Games and more.

The Moment of Speech - Creative Articulation for Actors (Hardcover): Annie Morrison The Moment of Speech - Creative Articulation for Actors (Hardcover)
Annie Morrison
R2,885 Discovery Miles 28 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Annie Morrison, creator of the Morrison Bone Prop, abandons the notion that language and thought are mainly processed in the left cerebral hemisphere, and coaches the actor to speak from the heart. Through this method, words acquire physical properties, such as weight, texture, colour and kinetic force. Think about Martin Luther King, Mao Zedong or Malala Yousafzai; potent speech impacts external events. And internally, it forms and shapes the world of the speaker. Seeing articulation as a purely mechanical skill is detrimental to an actor's process: it is crucial to understand what language is doing on a biological level. This workbook is invaluable for actors, both professional and in training, and also for voice and speech teachers.

The Art of Resonance (Hardcover): Anne Bogart The Art of Resonance (Hardcover)
Anne Bogart
R2,028 R1,862 Discovery Miles 18 620 Save R166 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing arts. The word 'resonance' comes from the Latin meaning to 're-sound' or 'sound together'. From music to physics, resonance is a common thread that evokes a response and, in general, is understood as a quality that makes something personally meaningful and valuable. For Bogart, curiosity is a key personal quality to be nurtured throughout life and that very same curiosity, as an artist, thinker and human being. Creating pathways between performance theory, art history, neuroscience, music, architecture and the visual arts, and consistently forging new thought-paths, the writing draws upon Anne Bogart's own life and artistic journeys to illuminate potent philosophical ideas. Woven with personal anecdotes, stories and reflections, this is a book that will be of interest to any theatre artist and anyone who reflects on the power of the arts, of theatre-making and what it means to be engaged in the artistic process.

Interchangeable Parts - Acting, Industry, and Technology in US Theater (Hardcover): Victor Holtcamp Interchangeable Parts - Acting, Industry, and Technology in US Theater (Hardcover)
Victor Holtcamp
R2,634 Discovery Miles 26 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While Hollywood has long been called 'The Dream Factory,' and theatrical entertainment more broadly has been called 'The Industry,' the significance of these names has rarely been explored. There are in fact striking overlaps between industrial rhetoric and practice and the development of theatrical and cinematic techniques for rehearsal and performance. Interchangeable Parts examines the history of acting pedagogy and performance practice in the United States, and their debts to industrial organization and philosophy. Ranging from the late 19th century through the end of the 20th, the book recontextualizes the history of theatrical technique in light of the embrace of industrialization in U.S. culture and society. Victor Holtcamp explores the invocations of scientific and industrial rhetoric and philosophy in the founding of the first schools of acting in the United States, and echoes of that rhetoric in playwriting, production, and the cinema, as Hollywood in particular embraced this industrially infected model of acting. In their divergent approaches to performance, the major U.S. acting teachers (Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Sanford Meisner) demonstrated strong rhetorical affinities for the language of industry, illustrating the pervasive presence of these industrial roots. Holtcamp narrates the story of how actors learned to learn to act, and what that process, for both stage and screen, owed to the interchangeable parts and mass production revolutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Key Fundamentals To Getting Your $hit Together (Hardcover): Reginald Kinchen The Key Fundamentals To Getting Your $hit Together (Hardcover)
Reginald Kinchen; Foreword by Gaberiel Reese; Photographs by Bray Stevenson
R612 R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
More Scenes for Young Performers to Enjoy (Hardcover): Eleanor Mcleod More Scenes for Young Performers to Enjoy (Hardcover)
Eleanor Mcleod
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Practical Problems - Ten Stories for the Stage (Hardcover): J. Ajlouny Practical Problems - Ten Stories for the Stage (Hardcover)
J. Ajlouny
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lakewood Theatre Company (Hardcover): Jen Avila-Langford Lakewood Theatre Company (Hardcover)
Jen Avila-Langford; Foreword by Foreword Kay Griffin Vega
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season (hardback) - Confessions of a Casting Director (Hardcover): Joel Thurm Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season (hardback) - Confessions of a Casting Director (Hardcover)
Joel Thurm
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio (Hardcover): Ian J M King Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio (Hardcover)
Ian J M King
R624 R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare - A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers... 'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare - A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers (Hardcover)
Penelope Freedman
R1,993 Discovery Miles 19 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Romeo and Juliet always use 'thou' to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakespeare to do this. Why? All the women in Richard III address Richard as 'thou', but no man ever does. Why? When characters address the dead, they use 'thou' - except for Hamlet, who addresses Yorick as 'you'. Why? Shakespeare's contemporaries would have known the answers to these questions because they understood what 'thou' signified, but modern actors and audiences are in the dark. Through performance-oriented analysis of extracts from the plays, this book explores the language of 'trulls' and termagants, true loves and unwelcome wooers, male impersonators, smothering mothers, warring spouses and fighting men, as well as investigating lese-majeste, Freudian slips, crisis moments and rhetorical flourishes. Drawing on work with RSC actors, as well as the author's experience of playing a range of Shakespearean roles, the book equips the reader with a new tool for tracking emotions, weighing power relations and appreciating dazzling complexity.

Voice (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2018): Jane Boston Voice (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2018)
Jane Boston; Series edited by Simon. Shepherd
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This wide-ranging volume explores the technical and physical aspects of voice as a craft, questioning its definitions, its historical presence, training practices and its publications. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Jane Boston presents a selection of readings that demonstrate and contextualize some of the defining moments of voice throughout history. This clear and accessible text examines the relationship between voice and aesthetics and poetics, against the backdrop of class, race and gender politics, demonstrating how vocal training has been and still is inevitably connected to such issues. Underpinned by theory, voice practitioner accounts, and cultural and historical contextualization, this comprehensive resource will be invaluable for practitioners, researchers and students of voice studies, physical theatre and theatre history.

Acting - The First Six Lessons (Hardcover): Richard Boleslavsky Acting - The First Six Lessons (Hardcover)
Richard Boleslavsky
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mactor's Guide - A How To Guide For Model/Actors (Hardcover): Benz Veal The Mactor's Guide - A How To Guide For Model/Actors (Hardcover)
Benz Veal
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Maud Beerbohm Tree - Lady of the Stage (Hardcover): Susana Cory-Wright Maud Beerbohm Tree - Lady of the Stage (Hardcover)
Susana Cory-Wright
R2,590 Discovery Miles 25 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Clive Barker and His Legacy - Theatre Workshop and Theatre Games (Hardcover): Paul Fryer, Nesta Jones Clive Barker and His Legacy - Theatre Workshop and Theatre Games (Hardcover)
Paul Fryer, Nesta Jones
R2,859 Discovery Miles 28 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An edited collection of essays exploring the work and legacy of the academic and theatre-maker Clive Barker. Together, the essays trace the development of his work from his early years as an actor with Joan Littlewood's company, Theatre Workshop, via his career as an academic and teacher, through the publication of his seminal book, Theatre Games (Methuen Drama). The book looks beyond Barker's death in 2005 at the enduring influence of his work upon contemporary theatre training and theatre-making. Each writer featured in the collection responds to a specific aspect of Barker's work, focusing primarily on his early and formative career experiences with Theatre Workshop and his hugely influential development of Theatre Games. The collection as a whole thereby seeks to situate Clive Barker's work and influence in an international and multi-disciplinary context, by examining not only his origins as an actor, director, teacher and academic, but also the broad influence he has had on generations of theatre-makers.

Create! - How Extraordinary People Live To Create and Create To Live (Hardcover): Ronald Rand Create! - How Extraordinary People Live To Create and Create To Live (Hardcover)
Ronald Rand
R1,802 Discovery Miles 18 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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