{"title":"Acting techniques Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-actor-9780241658222","title":"The Actor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTO ACHIEVE GREATNESS, HE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover 2024''s most original new thriller, a story of glamour, secrets and obsession . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''GRABS YOU FROM THE OPENING LINE AND WON'T LET YOU GO\u003c\/b\u003e' ALEX MICHAELIDES, AUTHOR OF\u003ci\u003e THE SILENT PATIENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''MASTERFULLY PLOTTED'' \u003c\/b\u003eERIN KELLY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A FIRST-CLASS THRILLER''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A BARNSTORMING PERFORMANCE'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. 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This book is a quest for the voice of early professional actors, drawing on English, French and other European sources to distinguish the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs. David Wiles challenges the orthodoxy that all serious discussion of acting began with Stanislavski, and outlines the comprehensive but fluid classical system of acting which was for some three hundred years its predecessor. He reveals premodern acting as a branch of rhetoric, which took from antiquity a vocabulary for conversations about the relationship of mind and body, inside and outside, voice and movement. Wiles demonstrates that Roman rhetoric provided the bones of both a resilient theatrical system and a physical art that retains its relevance for the post-Stanislavskian performer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 1. Hamlet's advice to the players; 2. Rhetorical performance in antiquity; 3. 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Paired with online video exercises and demonstrations, \u003ci\u003eThe Singer Acts, The Actor Sings \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential resource for actors and singers alike, helping them master both art forms and gain deeper insight into their own strengths. 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Think about Martin Luther King, Mao Zedong or Malala Yousafzai; potent speech impacts external events. And internally, it forms and shapes the world of the speaker. Seeing articulation as a purely mechanical skill is detrimental to an actor's process: it is crucial to understand what language is doing on a biological level.    This workbook is invaluable for actors, both professional and in training, and also for voice and speech teachers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnie Morrison is an inspirational leader within the field of voice and speech work. Highly regarded within the world of actor training and within the world of the film, theatre and recorded media industries, this book makes her work available to a wider audience and it will be of invaluable use to any professional voice user as well as to anyone who wishes to become a more effective or expressive speaker. 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The text is supplemented by exclusive video material to take the actor from their first encounter with the text through rehearsals with fellow actors and into performance. Drawing from the author''s twenty years'' experience of teaching at the Yale School of Drama, this book, which is influenced, too, by the work of legendary teachers such as Konstantin Stanislavski and Uta Hagen, presents a thorough examination of key aspects of the actor''s technique (for example, listening, playing an action and pursuing an objective). 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