Acting: The Basics

Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition is a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook that covers the fundamentals of acting, including breath, body, voice, emotions, imagination, and spirit. It emphasizes inclusion, diversity, and equity in the entertainment industry and provides practical tools and global perspectives for actors of all levels. The book includes insights from various practitioners and incorporates methods focusing on disability and accessibility, intimacy directives, mindfulness, and intersectionality. It also includes post-COVID insights and expanded sections on screen acting and Shakespeare. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced actor, this book is a valuable resource for learning and improving your craft.

Format: Hardback
Length: 212 pages
Publication date: 19 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition is a dynamic response to recent societal and entertainment industry changes, focusing on inclusion, diversity, and equity, and the actor's trajectory from training to rehearsal to performance on stage and screen, with hands-on tools and global perspectives. The book offers vital ways of building a practical acting toolkit, through breath, body, voice, emotions, imagination, and spirit. We begin with a socio-cultural look at the actor as magician, storyteller, healer, and social changer. Throughout, there are insights from Black, Indigenous, First Nations, South/East Asian, intercultural, and feminist practitioners, together with methods focusing on disability and accessibility, intimacy directives, mindfulness, and intersectionality. Key canonical figures still feature (e.g., Stanislavsky, Meisner, Brecht, and Suzuki) with re-visioned perspectives. Scattered throughout are post-COVID insights, plus expanded sections on screen acting (including self-tapes) and Shakespeare. This book is useful for beginner or expert, as it's always helpful to get back to basics. Because the author is both an actor and an actor trainer, the tools are steeped in user-friendly application. At the same time, transferable skills (e.g., dynamic listening and empathy) are shown as relevant to everyone. With a glossary of terms and useful online suggestions (including blogs, videos, and podcasts), this is ideal for anyone learning anew about the practice and history of acting, or to take their acting and teaching into new terrain.

Weight: 576g
Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032212081
Edition number: 3 ed