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  • On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë

    Wuthering Heights in Japan

    by Judith Pascoe ...
    While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. On the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Sarah Siddons Audio Files

    Romanticism and the Lost Voice

    by Judith Pascoe ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    “The theatre scholar’s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe’s account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research.”—Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Viewpoints Book

    A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

    by Anne Bogart, Tina Landau ...
    The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • An Actor's Work

    A Student's Diary

    by Konstantin Stanislavski ...
    Stanislavski’s ‘system’ has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre.Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read English-language ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Training of the American Actor

    Edited by Arthur Bartow ...
    Successful acting must reflect a society’s current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to current needs in order to continue to be successful methods for training actors. The actor’s journey is an individual one, and the actor ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues

    More Than 150 Selections from the Golden Age of Greek Drama, the Age of Shakespeare, the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Stefan Rudnicki ...
    A challenging, wide-ranging collection of monologues from history’s greatest dramatic worksFrom the stately and poetic Greek tragedies to the lively, bawdy Restoration comedies, the classical repertoire is a treasure trove of often-overlooked materials for male and female, young and old. The solo pieces collected here vary widely in mood, style, and level of challenge; they include a generous ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Actor Training

    by Alison Hodge ...
    Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised. In addition, eight more practitioners are included - and ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Psychophysical Acting

    An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski

    by Phillip B. Zarrilli ...
    Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today’s actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to approach their work. Areas of focus include:an historical overview of a psychophysical approach to acting from Stanislavski to the presentacting ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Presence of the Actor

    by Joseph Chaikin ...
    Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Stanislavsky in America

    An Actor's Workbook

    by Mel Gordon ...
    Stanislavsky in America explores the extraordinary legacy that Constantin Stanislavski’s system of actor-training has left on acting in the US.Mel Gordon outlines the journey of Stanislavski’s theories through twentieth century American history, from the early US tours of the Moscow Art Theatre to the ongoing impact of 'The System' on modern American acting.This fascinating study by a leading ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Science Of Acting

    by Sam Kogan, Helen Kogan ...
    What is good acting? How does one create believable characters? How can an actor understand a character if they do not understand themselves?In The Science of Acting, Sam Kogan uses his theories on the relationship between neuroscience, psychology and acting to answer these questions. Practical exercises provide a step-by-step guide to developing an actor's ability, culminating in Ten Steps to ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Untangling My Chopsticks

    A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto

    by Victoria Abbott Riccardi ...
    Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki, the exquisitely refined form of cooking that accompanies the formal Japanese tea ceremony. She arrived in Kyoto, a city she had dreamed about but never seen, with two bags, an open ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD