Essential Acting A Practical Handbook for Actors, Teachers and Directors [Hardcover]

How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process?

Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop. RADAs Brigid Panet has distilled nearly 60 years of acting, directing and actor training into a unique recipe which brilliantly combines the teachings of Stanislavsky and Laban into an invaluable practical resource.

These exercises are built around the need for simple, achievable techniques that can be applied by actors, teachers and directors to answer the myriad requirements of actor training. The goal is to produce a continuous level of achievement, addressing:

How to rehearse

How to work with a text

How to audition for drama school

How to access the truth of feelings and actions

Essential Acting will be a must-have purchase for anyone looking for a comprehensive study guide to the necessary work of the actor.

Introduction: What is acting and how do you do it?  Part One Acting exercises  1. Notes for the teacher of the acting exercises  2. Making a good start  3. Experiencing the Three Essentials  4. The Magic If  5. Exercises in immediate response  6. Developing the physical skills of acting  Part Two Acting is behaving  7. Status*  8. Eye-gaze*  9. Confidence, poise and balance  Part Three The rehearsal process  10. Meeting the play  11. Bringing the text to life  12. Breathing, speaking and learning lines  13. The actors work on a character  Part Four Directing a play  14. Solving common problems in acting  15. Playing the space&lCç