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An Inclusive Approach

Ron Carlos, Yale School of Drama, USA This textbook redresses the traditional approach to speech work and encourages actors to achieve intelligibility through rigorous language analysis, an exploration of their own accent and articulation practices� It breaks down a process for analyzing text in a way that excites the imagination, provides exercises that enables each actor to make their own speech come alive, so they are able to make active choices onstage rooted in their own identity�

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages • 5 bw illus� PB 9781350145962 • £19�99 / $26�95 • HB 9781350145955 • £65�00 / $90�00 ePub 9781350145986 • £17�99 / $24�72 ePdf 9781350145979 • £17�99 / $24�72 Series: Acting Essentials • Methuen Drama Patsy Rodenburg, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks� This edition begins with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ends with what leading professional actors must achieve every night on stage� This inspirational book reveals the approaches of one of the world's foremost voice and acting coaches�

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 400 pages PB 9781350289673 • £22�99 / $30�95 ePub 9781350289697 • £20�69 / $28�84 ePdf 9781350289680 • £20�69 / $28�84 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic

The Clowning Workbook

A Practical Course

Jon Davison, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK The Clowning Workbook uses the techniques and insights of clowning to improve and expand the scope of classical actor training� Jon Davison draws on original workshops and research to provide practical clowning exercises to develop wider acting practice in interesting and innovative ways� Starting with practical workshops, he offers guidance and explanation to key concepts in clowning including the dynamics of clown-audience relationship, improvisation, movement and voice, offering fresh and inspiring angles from which to view classical actor training�

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 288 pages PB 9781350050471 • £24�99 / $34�95 • HB 9781350050457 • £75�00 / $100�00 ePub 9781350050495 • £22�49 / $31�59 ePdf 9781350050433 • £22�49 / $31�59 Series: Theatre Arts Workbooks • Methuen Drama

Why Do Actors Train?

Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers

Brad Krumholz, Hunter College, USA This book demonstrates how actors function in the fictive reality of theatre and makes a case for theorizing the actor’s craft as a fully embodied process of interaction with the environment� Engaging with contemporary ideas from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, embodied cognition and other branches of philosophy, Krumholz challenges outmoded mind/body dualistic notions that permeate common conceptions of how actors create character� Through detailed, step-by-step analyses of specific actor-training exercises, this book sheds light on what actors do, how do they do it and why�

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350236967 • £75�00 / $100�00 ePub 9781350236981 • £67�50 / $93�42 ePdf 9781350236974 • £67�50 / $93�42 Methuen Drama

Dynamic Acting Through Active Analysis

Konstantin Stanislavsky, Maria Knebel, and their Legacy

Sharon Marie Carnicke, USC School of Dramatic Arts, USA The first practical guide for contemporary actors in English to the history and practice of Active Analysis, this muchneeded book equips actors with the artistic flexibility needed to work across a range of dramatic styles and across media� A pragmatic guide for actors to the history and practice of Stanislavsky’s last and most innovative approach to performance� Named “Active Analysis” by Maria Knebel, Stanislavsky’s most influential protégé, it invites actors to explore the interactive dynamics in scenes by enacting them before memorizing lines� This process of analyzing texts actively taps actors’ minds, bodies and spirits simultaneously thus fostering dynamic acting�

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages • 8 bw illus� PB 9781350205178 • £24�99 / $34�95 • HB 9781350205185 • £75�00 / $100�00 ePub 9781350205208 • £22�49 / $31�59 ePdf 9781350205192 • £22�49 / $31�59 Methuen Drama