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Nick Moseley
As Head of Acting at a major drama school, Nick Moseley has developed a system that is based on the individual's need to find truth in everything they do, to be 'in the moment' and to react instinctively to the other people on stage. In this book, he takes the best of Stanislavski, David Mamet and Sanford Meisner to fuel his own intensely practical approach.
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-803-5 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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Caldarone & Lloyd Williams
A vital companion for actors in rehearsal – a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance. It is a thesaurus of active verbs, with which the actor can refine the action-word until s/he hits exactly the right one to help make the action come alive.
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-674-1 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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Declan Donnellan
A revised and updated edition of Declan Donnellan's bestselling book, a fresh and radical approach to acting.
The Actor and the Target takes a scalpel to the heart of persistent fears from '
I don't know what I'm doing!' through '
I don't know who I am!' to '
I don't know what I'm playing!'
'Practically and modestly written, Declan Donnellan's book helps actors to release their talent and to be free on stage. However, Donnellan's path leads to wider perspectives; his book is rooted in modern theatre, modern psychology and, above all, modern reality. Written with wit and elegance, The Actor and the Target will be thoroughly enjoyed not only by the actors of a new millennium, but also by those of us who see the stage from the dark auditorium' Izvestia
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-838-7 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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Dean Carey
The first edition of
The Actor’s Audition Manual quickly became known as the ‘red audition bible’, making it the essential guide. Now revised, it brings together a wealth of practical advice and a fresh range of speeches from Australian plays that will help make any audition powerful and effective.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-516-2 | PB
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Lyn Haill (ed)
In 1986, Peter Gill, the then director of the National Theatre Studio, sent a group of young actors to interview their seniors about speaking on stage. The transcripts provide fascinating insights into the theatre of the past, but they also show how little has changed: the actor’s primary tools are still the body and voice. Actors interviewed include Harry Andrews, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Robert Stephens and Margaret Tyzack, with notes from John Gielgud. Peter Gill provides an introduction.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-776-1 | PB
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Peter Gill
Apprenticeship is Peter Gill’s potent recollection of the changing theatrical landscape of the 1960s and his journey from being a young actor to becoming a world-renowned director and playwright. Using his recently re-discovered 1962 diary, he recalls being in
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, as part of the first RSC London season, and how this experience began to develop his own ideas of what theatre might be.
Gill explores his reaction to that apprenticeship in the context of young directors training today. An experience the diary shows to have been at times "baffling and exhilarating and sometimes frankly awful", it nevertheless produces an evocative portrait of post war British theatre and the profound impact of the work of Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble on theatre and on Gill's own subsequent work.
Apprenticeship is also, in part, the story of a young actor trying to understand what the theatre is and, in the process, moving towards becoming a director.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-871-3 | HB
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Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington’s solo show about Anton Chekhov has taken London’s ‘Russian Actor’ from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow, into the repertoires of the National Theatre and the Old Vic, and across Europe.
Are You There, Crocodile? also includes accounts of his work on Dostoevsky’s
Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy’s
Strider among other Russian projects, as well as searching essays on how Chekhov’s four masterpieces actually work in the theatre. This book is a study of the great writer, a partial autobiography, and, centrally, an actor’s search for identification with the elusive Anton Chekhov himself.
'It is fortunate that so remarkable a man and writer has attracted so remarkable an actor'
Sunday Telegraph (UK)
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-192-9 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | HB
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Staging The Philip Pullman Trilogy
Robert Butler
Philip Pullman’s trilogy
His Dark Materials is an ambitious and magical theatrical event.
In
The Art of Darkness: Staging the Philip Pullman Trilogy, Robert Butler tells the story of this theatrical epic, from its first rehearsal to opening night, taking the reader on a backstage journey of a production unrivalled in its narrative scope and staging.
His Dark Materials involves technologies old and new and
The Art of Darkness presents a unique inside account of how the magic of Philip Pullman’s world is created on stage. This book will make you feel involved in the play, whether you saw it produced or not.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-414-2 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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And Other Writings on the Theatre
J B Priestley
‘Why do we go to the theatre? What is it we enjoy there? If
we go to follow the fortunes of imaginary characters, why do we trouble
ourselves about the actors? If we go to enjoy the actors, why should the
quality of the play worry us?’
So begins J.B. Priestley’s landmark Old Vic lecture,
The Art
of the Dramatist, which examines and celebrates the playwright’s craft. He
shows how a theatrical experience relies on the ‘delicate balance between
belief and disbelief’ and addresses the tools with which a dramatist shapes a
play.
These passionate and witty essays distil Priestley’s experience
as a playwright, producer, director and—just once—actor. Published as a
companion volume to Priestley's plays, this new collection is part defence of
theatre, part incisive criticism. The
anthology is introduced by Tom Priestley, the playwright’s son.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-294-0 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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Murray Melvin (Editor)
The publication of this title coincides with a major exhibition at the National Theatre in London. This is a photographic record of the work of Joan Littlewood's famous Theatre Workshop, based at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.
In the 1950's and 60's the company was responsible for some of the most famous and influential work of modern British theatre such as
The Quare Fellow and
The Hostage both by Brendan Behan;
A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney;
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be by Frank Norman, music by Lionel Bart; and the massive success of
Oh, What a Lovely War.
Joan Littlewood, considered
‘one of the great creative forces of British theatre in the 1950s and 1960s and one of the great figures of political theatre in this country [UK]’, left an enduring legacy which is celebrated in this volume.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-691-7 | PB
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