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The Acting Book
Nick Hern Books 2012; US$ 16.03A ?fast-forward? acting course covering all the essential techniques an actor needs to know and use ? with a suite of exercises to put each technique into practice. The Acting Book offers various ways to analyse a text and to create character, using not only the established processes of Stanislavsky and Meisner, but also new ones developed by the... more...
The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 112.00The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time examines the place of Chekhovs Technique in contemporary acting pedagogy and practice. Cynthia Ashperger answers the questions: What are the reasons behind the techniques current resurgence? How has this cohesive and holistic training been brought into todays mainstream acting training? What... more...
The Contemporary Monologue: Women
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 26.95The Contemporary Monologue" is an exciting selection of speeches of all types, serious and comic, realistic and absurdist, drawn from plays written by contemporary playwrights over the past ten years. Updating the popular "Modern Monologues," this fresh collection of speeches represents the best American and English playwrights of today including... more...
Tis Pity She's A Whore
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95The last decade has seen a revival of interest in John Ford and especially 'Tis Pity She's a Whore , his tragedy of religious scepticism, incestuous love, and revenge. This text in particular has provided a focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions. Simon Barker guides the reader through the full... more...
So You Want To Go To Drama School?
Nick Hern Books 2012; US$ 14.57The essential guide to getting into drama school. Packed with sound advice and essential information for young people who want to train as actors and performers (including musical theatre), this clear and honest guide is written by a teacher and audition panellist with a lifetime?s experience of the audition process. It will help all aspiring actors... more...
Actor Training
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge?s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training . This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised.... more...
Education and Dramatic Art
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, this new edition brings the argument up-to-date and locates the author's proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools. The first... more...
Education In Drama
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Hornbrook, referring to current legislation, argues the case for an organized curricular framework for drama in the 1990s which develops in children the activities of designing, directing, acting, writing and evaluating - all within the range of the historic context of dramatic work. He asserts that recent drama teaching in Britain has been child-centred... more...
Artistic Literacy
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Exploring the ways undergraduate theatre programs can play a significant role in accomplishing the aims and learning outcomes of a contemporary liberal education, Kindelan argues that theatre's signature pedagogy helps all undergraduates become actively engaged in developing critical and value-focused skills. more...
Signs of Change
Intellect 2012; US$ 20.00There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting high school students and those who educate them. Thats why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of more...









