A Practical Handbook for the Actor

Cohn, Lee Michael, Bruder, Melissa, Olnek, Madeleine, Pollack, Nathaniel, Previto, Robert

ISBN 10: 0394744128 / ISBN 13: 9780394744124

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1986

Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP93792813

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition.