Overview
The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in
training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video
provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting.
The book presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting
skills, offers techniques for developing an authored role and models for
devising new work. These techniques are based on the practices of
Konstantin Stanislavski and his recent theatrical descendants including
Uta Hagen, Sanford Meisner, Michael Chekhov and others. The exercises in
the book are outlined in a student-centred approach, offering not only
in-class exercises, but also pre-class exercises, educational
frameworks, teaching-tips, suggested texts through which to apply the
work, follow-up exercises and suggestions for further reading in each
chapter. Enabling and guiding the actor's sustainable, communicable,
believable transformation into an imagined reality, this workbook is
filled with powerful and precise acting tools, each underpinned by a
rigorous and well-explained philosophy of practice.
The Actor's Workbook includes video of the author teaching the
exercises, with professional actors demonstrating the techniques to be
learned.