The Craft of Acting: How to Create Truthful Acting on Stage

by Tom Isbell

Overview

Tom Isbell wants you to know that this is definitely not a 'how-to' book on acting. In fact, he abhors how-to books for the arts. Still, this book is meant to improve your acting skills by developing your awareness as an actor — awareness both of yourself and those around you. By understanding what is worth pursuing, what is worth remembering and what is worth letting go, you can acquire knowledge about acting which will increase your skill level. This book is a series of 100 plain-speaking, highly readable lessons that convey the big and little truths of acting.Divided into 5 sections —Approach,Fundamentals,Classes and Rehearsals,Performance, andFinal Lessons— Isbell presents this as a true acting book that focuses on allowing the natural artist to evolve, grow and mature, finding his or her own voice. If you're new to acting, these 100 lessons should provide a foundation on which you can build your acting life. If you've been acting for a while, these lessons should confirm what you already know deep within you, but perhaps haven't yet voiced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566081115
Publisher:	Meriwether Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	04/28/2006
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama,Tom Isbellspent ten years as a professional actor, acting opposite Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, John Turturro, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anne Bancroft and many others. As a playwright, he's had three of his plays produced by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A professor of theatre at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he is honored to have received four distinguished teaching awards. His debut novel,The Prey, was recently published by HarperCollins.