Waterstones The Actor's Art and Craft

Name: The Actor's Art and Craft
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Description: A leading contemporary acting teacher explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL. Waterstones The Actor's Art and Craft - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk

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Review: So many acting classes and teachers will teach you the exact same thing but in different ways. This book really gets to the core essence of acting in a beautiful but easy to understand way. I've also had some teachers who haven't taught meisner in the way it's initially intended, Bill Esper does a great job in providing clarity to the Meisner technique and showing just how useful it can be to emotionally prepare an actor. This book has changed my entire perspective on the craft and I've really learned a lot!

Author: M. Bagarella

Rating: 4

Review: A very good book on the art of acting, with interesting insights and examples. The style and structure of the book mirror those of "An Actor prepares" (a narrator following an acting teacher giving lessons to his students), so it's not very original and feels like an updated version of it, which isn't a problem anyway since Stanislavski's work is still a masterpiece on the subject. A good read, and I recommend it.

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