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| June 09, 2010 Excerpt from: Publisher's Corner | | This theatre book contains almost 300 performance-tested games -- the largest collection published to date |  By Gavin Levy
With almost three hundred performance-tested acting games, this is the largest collection published to date. They were compiled from numerous workshops and study sessions. Includes a wide variety of proven activities for learning acting and theatre industry skills. The book is divided into thirty sections including: Audition, Concentration and Focus, Voice, Ensemble, Action and Reaction, Improvisation, Knowing Your Objective, Performance, Thinking outside the Box, Spatial Awareness, Nonverbal Communication, Making Choices, Releasing Inhibitions, The Physical Actor, and many more. This is an adaptable workbook designed to connect the learning of acting skills with professional auditions and the theatre industry. Other Books On Acting: The Art of Acting
From basic exercises to multidimensional performances By Carlton Colyer and Arthur Storch On Stage! Short Plays for Acting Students
Twenty-three one-act plays for performance By Robert Mauro | | |
| June 09, 2010 Excerpt from: Publisher's Corner | | This theatre book includes 55 sketches for young performers |  By Maggie Scriven
These short skits with casts of two to six players cover a wide variety of topics and drama styles. Some skits are comic for learning comedy technique. Others are situations for students to learn more about themselves and others. The dialogue is crisp and easy to perform. Very little planning and memorization is required to stage these skits. Many may be staged Readers Theatre style. They work well in a classroom and they may also be used in a theatrical setting. Sample titles include: Funny Isn’t Always Funny, Gossip among Friends, The Principal’s Office, and Party Girls. They can be staged and directed by the students themselves. Excellent for competition or comedy revue shows. Other Comedy Sketch Books: More Scenes That Happen
Real-life snapshots of teenage lives By Mary Krell-Oishi Thirty Short Comedy Plays for Teens
Plays for a variety of cast sizes By Laurie Allen
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| June 09, 2010 Excerpt from: Publisher's Corner | | This theatre book connects the craft to the industry |  By Paul G. Gleason and Gavin Levy
This collection of seventy-five acting exercises is designed to prepare actors and acting students for a professional career. The exercises were created during workshop sessions conducted by the authors with participants of the Paul G. Gleason Theatre in Hollywood. Over three hundred hours of recorded sessions were edited to pick the best exercises for developing acting skills. The book is divided into fifteen sections: Acting Is Not a Business, but It Can Be Business-Like; The Audience; Technology and Information for the Actor; Fix Yourself, Then Use Yourself; Sound and Vocal Levels; The Storyteller; A Magnetic Personality; Auditioning; Imagination; The Physical Actor; A State of Being; Eureka; Creating a World; Mirror Neurons; and Intimacy and Confrontation. Also includes insights from many professionals in the acting industry.
Other Helpful Books: Spontaneous Performance Acting through improv By Marsh Cassady The Theatre Audition Book
How to play monologs from contemporary, modern, period, Shakespeare, and classical plays By Gerald Lee Ratliff | | |
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