This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Throughout these pages Meisner is delight--always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, ...(展开全部)

The most authoritive, authentic text of a classic guide to acting In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theater. But To the Actor is a shortened, heavily modified version of the great director/actor/teacher's original manuscript, and On the Technique of Acting is the first and only ...(展开全部)

How does an actor learn to: Call up emotion? Develop a character? Strengthen awareness? These are essential techniques for every actor, and Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor explains, clearly and concisely, how to develop them. Chekhov's simple and practical method - successfully used by professional actors all over the world - trains the actor's imagination and bo...(展开全部)

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina. "Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." ―John Smith, acting coach From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso’s Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together und...(展开全部)

Peter Block raises our awareness of the trade-offs we've made in the name of practicality and expediency, and offers hope for a way of life in which we're motivated not by what “works” but by the things that truly matter in life—idealism, intimacy, depth and engagement.

"Acting Out " is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In "How I Became a Philosopher," he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic Epi...(展开全部)

著者 迈克尔·霍华德（Michael Howard，1923—2019），演员、戏剧导演、表演教师，70多年来一直是美国戏剧界的顶梁柱之一。20世纪40年代在纽约的邻里剧院跟随桑福德·迈斯纳学习，50年代在李·斯特拉斯伯格的私人课堂和演员工作室学习，表演生涯中曾与克利福德·奥德茨和乌塔·哈根等杰出剧作家、导演和演员合作，后转向导演和教学。他是亚特兰大联盟剧院的首任艺术总监，曾在茱莉亚学院和耶鲁大学戏剧学院任教。1953年在纽约创办了迈克尔·霍华德表演工作室，执教50余年，获得了广泛的国际认可。 译者 张越，男，80后，工学学士，戏剧与影视学硕士，喜欢电影和戏剧。现居北京。