A Practical Handbook for the Actor

Scott Zigler,Robert Previtio,Nathaniel Pollack,Madeleine Olnek,Lee Michael Cohn,Melissa Bruder

ISBN 10: 0394744128 / ISBN 13: 9780394744124

Published by Vintage, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Practical Handbook for the Actor
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394744128
• ISBN 13: 9780394744124
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).

This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to "find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play." The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book.

About the Author

Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, and Scott Zigler are actors who worked with David Mamet and W. H. Macy at New York University and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Members of the Practical Aesthetics Workshop, they helped found the Atlantic Theatre Company with Mamet and Macy in 1985.