Author/Contributor(s): | Bruder, Melissa; Cohn, Lee Michael; Olnek, Madeleine; Pollack, Nathaniel; Previto, Robert; Zigler, Scott; Mamet, David |
Publisher: | Vintage |
Date: | 04/12/1986 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to "find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play." The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book.