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1) 275 acting games, connected: a comprehensive workbook of theatre games for developing acting skills
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Publisher
Meriwether Pub. Ltd
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate--and often hilarious--history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular. At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word of mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad hoc venue to see its unscripted, interactive, consciousness-raising style. From this unlikely seed grew the Second City,...
13) 100 great monologs: a versatile collection of monologs, duologs, and triologs for student actors
Author
Publisher
Meriwether Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward comes the first cultural history of Method acting-an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia's crushing repression, one of the...
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English
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"Jenna Fischer moved to Hollywood at age 22 with a theater degree in hand, ready to work hard. But it would be eight long years of struggle, rejection, and doubt before she landed her iconic role on The Office. If only she'd had someone to show her the way--an established actor who could manage her expectations and reassure her in moments of despair... With amusing candor and wit, Fischer spells out the nuts and bolts of getting established in the...
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