Acting Solo


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Bruce Miller addresses what aspects of your craft to work on, even when working alone, that will help you survive and grow as an actor.--[book cover]




Acting Solo


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Acting: The Basics


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Now in a vibrantly revised second editon, Acting: The Basics remains a practical and theoretical guide to the world of the professional actor, which skilfully combines ideas from a range of practitioners and linking the academy to the industry. Retaining a balance between acting history, a discussion of pioneers and a consideration of the practicalities of acting techniques, the new edition includes a discussion of acting for the screen as well as the practicalities of stage acting, including training, auditioning and rehearsing. With a glossary of terms and useful website suggestions, this is the ideal introduction for anyone wanting to learn more about the practice and history of acting.




Acting


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Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition is a dynamic response to recent societal and entertainment industry changes, focusing on inclusion, diversity and equity, and the actor's trajectory from training to rehearsal to performance on stage and screen, with hands-on tools and global perspectives. The book offers vital ways of building a practical acting toolkit, through breath, body, voice, emotions, imagination and spirit. We begin with a socio-cultural look at actor as magician, storyteller, healer and social changer. Throughout, there are insights from Black, Indigenous, First Nations, South/East Asian, intercultural and feminist practitioners, together with methods focusing on disability and accessibility, intimacy directives, mindfulness and intersectionality. Key 'canonical' figures still feature (e.g., Stanislavsky, Meisner, Brecht and Suzuki) with re-visioned perspective. Scattered throughout are post-COVID insights, plus expanded sections on screen acting (including self-tapes) and Shakespeare. This book is useful for beginner or expert, as it's always helpful getting back to basics. Because the author is both an actor and an actor trainer, the tools are steeped in user-friendly application. At the same time, transferable skills (e.g., dynamic listening and empathy) are shown as relevant to everyone. With a glossary of terms and useful online suggestions (including blogs, videos and podcasts), this is ideal for anyone learn anew about the practice and history of acting, or to take their acting and teaching into new terrain.




The Belle of Amherst


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THE STORY: In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce’s classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson’s secluded life.




Solo!


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Presents a collection of powerful monologues for actors, written by the decade's most influential and popular dramatists from the United States and Great Britain.




Humorous Funny Comedy Solo Acting Monologue Scripts


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Humorous Funny Comedy Solo Acting Monologue ScriptsMonologues included in the book:THE BIG BAD WOLFBIG ZEROBLESSING IN DISGUISEBONES THE PIRATE GIRLBUG-EYED CREATURECALL ME DUMPER (male)CALL ME DUMPER (female)CASSANDRACATCHICKCOLD AND SHIVERYDEAR GODDEATH BY DOLLARSDOWN THE DRAINDUMMYEARLY MORNINGFANNYFLOWERS FROM PHILFOREVER ON HOLDFUNNY LITTLE FUSSY FACEGIRLS OF AMERICA, BEWARETHE GIRL WHO BROKE HIS FINGERGOODBYE CRUEL WORLDGOOD DEEDS AND SUCHGREENIE (THE LAST LIBERAL)GROWING UP IS HARD TO DOHUMPTY DUMPTY PRIVATE EGG HARD-BOILED DETECTIVEI HATE BUFFETSI NEED DETENTIONIT'S JUST RIGHTKILL FIRST, GLOAT LATERMASKED MANTHE MASTER OF FART ZENTHE MASTER OF ROCK! SCISSORS! PAPER!MELINDA STREETMR. MOO IS MADMUGGED IN METROPOLISMY MASKMY WILLIAM SHATNER MAN CRUSHNEW LOVE FOUNDTHE PAPARAZZI FARTPEANUT BUTTER FLAVORED TOOTHPASTEPEARLS OF WISDOMPROTECTO (KID HERO)SCHOOL NEWSPAPERSIMPLE, TRUE, HONEST LOVESLEEPING SPELLSPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS INDIGESTIONTHE SUNDAY GAMBLESYMBOL OF THE REVOLUTIONTAKE IT EASYWAITING ON THE BRIDEWHERE'S MY PRINCE CHARMINGWHO WANTS TO BE MY BULLYYAR




Inner Monologue in Acting


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What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and wide-reaching examination of inner monologue in various forms including film, musical theatre, and comedy.




The Invisible Actor


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The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. Written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides contextual commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury Revelations edition, Yoshi Oida revisits the questions that have informed his career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has shaped the wider contours of his life.




Spotlight


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A superb resource for speech contests, acting exercises, auditions, or audience entertainment. In a stage review, these short monologues can be indispensable. Warm, funny, and best of all -- real. Sixty characterisations for girls, boys or either. Any young person will relate to the topics of these scripts. And they will like them as performance material that is 'scare-free'.




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