Theatre

Acting & Auditioning for the 21st Century covers acting and auditioning in relation to new media, blue and green screen technology, motion capture, web series, audiobook work, evolving livestreamed web series, and international acting and audio work.

The exercises are adapted from Michael Chekhov's acting technique, but are reimagined in new and creative ways that offer innovative twists.

Litz Pisk's subject, in her teaching and in this book, is a search for and awareness of the emotional and psychological impulses that should, quite literally, motivate an actor in his or her role on the stage. Pisk's theory is illuminated by her comments on specific texts, the relationship between meaning and movement and her own line-drawings used throughout the book. The Actor and His Body is also a practical manual for keeping the body physically fit and responsive - in Litz Pisk's terms, fully 'tuned'. There are suggested workouts for 15-, 30- and 60-minute periods as well as a complete weekly program concentrating on different parts of the body each day.

In Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen, Annette Lust provides artists with a program of physical and related expressive exercises that can empower their art with more creativity on the stage and screen.

With over one thousand entries, this encyclopedia covers stage actors and acting around the world.

Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable - and hilarious - performances.

Documentary Film - working actors discuss the aspects and differences of working in theater, film, and television.

Film: Hollywood acting teacher and director Timothy Craig outlines the amazing 115-year evolution of Stanislavsky's acting training from Russia to the U.S. and how some of the major Stanislavsky-influenced acting techniques relate to each. Craig discusses Stanislavsky's study of actors; Moscow Art Theater and the Russian Revolution; Stella Adler; group theater and the American Great Depression; Lee Strasberg; and Sanford Meisner.

As smartphones, social media, and other forms of digital connectedness become more and more embedded in daily life, they can inhibit these collaborative, creative skills. Turn That Thing Off! Collaboration and Technology in 21st-Century Actor Training explores ways to foster these essential abilities, paving the way for emerging performers to be more present, available, and generous in their work.

Here the theories, training exercises and productions of fourteen directors are analyzed.