Author:
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: acting, series, applause, comedy, style
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1557832145
ISBN-13: 9781557832146

This book isn’t a critical examination of high comedy. Rather, it’s a collection of suggestions for the middlemen: the actors who have to catch the comic spark from the playwright and pass it on to the audience. The effort involved must be imperceptible: one has to acquire the cleverness, the articulacy, the febrility of the characters - and then make the whole laborious exercise seem like swimming through silk...The characters in high comedies don’t find verbal sophistication difficult or unfamiliar; they enjoy it as you might enjoy slang.

Author: Paul Kuritz
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: acting, series, applause, practical, fundamental, guide
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1557833044
ISBN-13: 9781557833044

Aimed at the beginning acting student, this book takes a commonsense approach to the craft, building on basic techniques in the first part and then going on to cover two distinct types of theater; comedy and Shakespearean verse. Kuritz introduces basic acting techniques through a series of simple exercises. the section on verse analyzes accent and rhythm with examples of dialog, while the comedy chapter lists 15 examples of comic situations, along with definitions and examples of comic figures of speech. Warm-up exercises, comic dialect guidelines, and a general stage terminology contribute to

Author:
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: acting, series, applause, comedies, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1557832153
ISBN-13: 9781557832153

In this book adapted from a television master class, actress Janet Suzman has crafted a superbly concise and clearly written account of how to develop fully realized characters in Shakespeare. Here she shares her poignant observations. Includes a foreword, and great photos throughout.

Author: Caine
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: acting, applause, series, revised, making, expanded, movie, caine, film, actor, michael
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1557832773
ISBN-13: 9781557832771

A master actor who’s appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos throughout, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera - Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more."Remarkable material ... A treasure ... I’m not going to be looking at performances quite the same way ... FASCINATING!"- Gene Siskel

Author: John Russell Brown
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: series, acting, applause, shakespeare, shakescenes
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1557830495
ISBN-13: 9781557830494

35 scenes from Shakespeare are presented in newly-edited texts, with notes which clarify meanings, topical references, puns, ambiguities, etc. A brief description of characters and situation prefaces each scene, and is followed by a commentary which discusses its major acting challenges and opportunities. Each scene has been chosen for its independent life requiring only the simplest of stage properties and the barest of spaces.

Author: Jaq Greenspon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: acting
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-01-11
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0844243795
ISBN-13: 9780844243795

Introduces such careers in the performing arts as actor, singer, comedienne, and writer, using portraits of various people in the field.

Author: Stella Adler
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: acting, art
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1557833737
ISBN-13: 9781557833730

Stella Adler was one of the 20th CenturyÕs greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book. Hardcover.