A Practical Handbook for the Actor

This simple and essential book about the craft of acting 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.

Author: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/12/1986
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780394744124
ISBN10: 0394744128
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning
- Performing Arts | Theater | Stagecraft & Scenography
- Performing Arts | Business Aspects

About the Author
Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, and Scott Zigler are actors who worked with David Mamet and W. H. Macy at New York University and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Members of the Practical Aesthetics Workshop, they helped found the Atlantic Theatre Company with Mamet and Macy in 1985.