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A Practical Handbook for the Actor

A Practical Handbook for the Actor

Jacket Description/Flap: 6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. Biographical Note: Melissa Bruder,...

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Jacket Description/Flap:
6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.

Biographical Note:
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.

Review Quotes:
"This is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years." --from the introduction by David Mamet

"Simple, clear and consise--just what was needed. A deeply interesting and valuable piece of work." --Sidney Lumet

"This terse and lucid handbook might well be for the actor what Strunk and White's The Elements of Style is for the writer." --John Guare

"This book is wonderful. It is clear, direct, and to the point, with none of the hokum that accompanies most books on the theatre, especially about acting. I learned an enormous amount." --Robert Benton

"This beautifully written book offers a clear guide to the most profound acting technique I know. Every young actor should read it, re-read it, and then keep it under his pillow." --Lindsay Crouse



Author: Bruder, Melissa
Publisher: Vintage
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 1986-04-12
BISAC: Performing Arts|Acting & Auditioning|Performing Arts|Theater|Stagecraft & Scenography|Performing Arts|Business Aspects
Subjects: Method acting|Acting
Weight: 0.25 lbs
ISBN: 9780394744124
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780394744124

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