Bad Actors
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans**Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times...
Bad Actors
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans* *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Herron is at the summit of a new gol...
Bad Actors
*Pre-order BAD ACTORS now - now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* POLITICS IS A DANGEROUS GAME In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere. A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without...
Bad Actors
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' Sunday Times*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times'This is entertainment of the highest class' Literary Review'[Bad Actors] deserves the bouquets that will come its way, and Herron is building a series with lasting resonance' The Times'One of the most consistently enjoyable literary achievements of the past decade' The Times'The man is a genius' Spectator
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
A vital companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance, with a foreword by Terry Johnson.
Actors
Actors
Bad Bat
Bad Bat enjoys tricking the other animals when they are sleeping - but will he still be laughing when they find a way of tricking him? This charming Big Cat guided reading book is written and illustrated by Laura Hambleton. This is a Red B/Band 2B...
Notes to an Actor
"Do you have any notes for me?" Actors always ask for notes on their performance, and they will take them from just about anyone. Ron Marasco's Notes to an Actor grew out of the actor's profession. In his years as an actor, scholar, and ...
Policy Actors
Policy analysis has always attended to the role of elite actors, but much less often has the policy activity of 'street level' actors been attended to. The 'implementation' paradigm has tended to caricature the level of practice in terms of 'resis...
Political Actors
From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political ...
Directing Actors
In this essential guide to acting, internationally renowned directing coach Judith Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, and what directors do wrong. She also goes over script analysis and prepa...
Travesty Actors
Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin's 'show trials,' the public prosecutions in Moscow's Hall of Columns in the late 1930s, is so familiar as to obscure the relationship between actual shows - in the Soviet Union's major theaters - and politics. Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture examines theatrical performance within the context of the Soviet cultural establishment's fashioning of a 'genuine Soviet person.' Boris Wolfson focuses on prominent and controversial plays by artists including Aleksandr Afinogenov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha, and Natalia Sats and the efforts of theater companies, like the Moscow Arts Theater, the Meyerhold Theater, and the Central Children's Theater, to adhere to this cultural mandate while grappling with repression, censorship, and conflicting interpretations of its aims. Drawing on archival materials, diaries and memoirs and eyewitness accounts, Wolfson greatly illuminates the
Actors' Voices
In conversation with Patrick O'Kane, eleven experienced actors who have made a living, a life, in theatre, television and film, share their process, comment on their experiences and consider their role as theatre artists within the broader spectru...
Extraordinary Actors
The extraordinary performers collected here have altered the history of popular entertainment in America and Europe. Some have rarely had their story told, others are familiar figures. The essays explore what made these performers extraordinary.
Teaching Actors
Teaching Actors draws on history, literature, and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia, to offer those involved in actor training a critical framework within which to think about their work. Prior, who ...
Actors Studio
Over the years there has been much controversy and confusion about the true nature of The Actors Studio, a secluded workshop in New York City that for decades has had a marked influence on the stage and screen and yet functions like a secret socie...
Hybrid Actors
Influential armed groups continue to confound policymakers, diplomats, and analysts decades after their transformational arrival on the scene in the Middle East and North Africa. The most effective of these militias can most usefully be understood as hybrid actors, which simultaneously work through, with, and against the state.This joint report from The Century Foundation identifies the factors that make some hybrid actors persistent and successful, as measured by longevity, influence, and ability to project power militarily as well as politically. It finds that three factors correlate most closely with impact: constituent loyalty, resilient state relationships, and coherent ideology. The authors of this report examined cases in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, drawing on years of fieldwork, to distinguish hybrid actors, classic nonstate proxies, and aspirants to statehood?all of which merit different analytical and policy treatment. The report demonstrates the ways that groups can shift
The Actor's Secret
Offering revolutionary new training for the actor, The Actor's Secret teaches actors and performers how to incorporate the fundamentals of the Alexander Technique, Somatic Experiencing¿, and Breathing Coordination in order to reduce performance an...
Games for Actors and Non-Actors
Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and ...
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Excellence for Actors
Do you want to achieve your full potential as an actor? Discover how to apply 'deliberate practice'-a type of practice used by top performers around the world-to turn your weaknesses into strengths. We all know that becoming a great actor requires hard work, but what specific actions will help you get better? Perhaps you have spent years taking acting classes without any noticeable improvement. Or maybe your acting did improve for a while, but you don't know how to make further progress. This lack of clarity is likely to lead to dissatisfaction and a decline in your enthusiasm for the craft. After all, nobody goes into acting aiming for mediocrity. If this sounds familiar, psychology can help. For many years, psychologists have been studying the process by which those dedicated to their craft achieve mastery. The biggest reveal of this exploration has been 'deliberate practice,' a process through which you can turn your weaknesses into strengths. The impact of deliberate practice has
Working With Actors
Working With Actors
Psychology for Actors
Psychology for Actors is a study of modern psychology, specifically designed for the working actor and actor-in-training, that covers discrete areas of psychological theory that actors can apply to their creative process to form and connect with c...
Disney Voice Actors
This biographical dictionary is devoted to the actors who provided voices for all the Disney animated theatrical shorts and features from the 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie to the 2010 feature film Tangled. More than 900 men, women, an...
Training Actors' Voices
Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. Border-crossing, cross-cultural exchange in contemporary theatre practices, and the rise of the intercultural actor has meant that actor training today has been shaped by multiple modes of training and differing worldviews. How might mainstream Anglo-American voice training for actors address the needs of students who bring multiple worldviews into the training studio? When several vocal training traditions are learned simultaneously, how does this shift the way actors think, talk, and perform? How does this change the way actors understand what a voice is? What it can/should do? How it can/should do it? Using adaptations of a traditional Korean vocal art, p’ansori, with adaptations of the 'natural' or 'free' voice approach, Tara McAllister-Viel offers an alternative approach to training actors’ voices by (re)considering the materials of training: breath, sound, 'presence,' and
What Actors Do
What Actors Do
Pioneer Canadian Actors
It seems that so many of today's Hollywood stars come from Canada, but at one time only a few could claim to have conquered Tinseltown. Here are the biographies of those Canadians who crossed the border and beat down the studio doors of Hollywood ...
Great Shakespeare Actors
Great Shakespeare Actors
Agency without Actors?
The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non...
Agents, Actors, Actorhood
National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players. Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary assoc...
Phenomenology for Actors
This book gives new insight into acting and theatre-making through phenomenology (the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience). It examines Being-in-the-world in everyday life with exercises for workshops and rehearsal. Each ch...
Feldenkrais for Actors
'The Feldenkrais Method is unique... I haven't found any other movement study that opens up such a rich and continuing area of enquiry' John Wright, from his Foreword Spontaneity, sensitivity, simplicity and flexibility in any situation are just s...
Hollywood Singing Actors
Hollywood Singing Actors [2 CD]
Elephant: Allured/Actors
Elephant: Allured/Actors [Vinyl 7"]
Memorization for Actors
Imagine if you could learn your lines in half the time yet feel confident they will roll off your tongue when needed. Memorization for Actors provides you with a range of practical psychology tools and a bullet-proof memorization process that will put you miles ahead of the competition. Inside you will discover: - How to become a master at learning your lines - Simple tricks to learn more lines in less time - Advanced tools to turbo-charge your memorization process - Proven strategies to remember your lines in high stress situations - When to schedule your memorization sessions for maximum effect Short enough to read in an afternoon yet jam-packed with practical advice, Memorization for Actors will transform your acting career. This is recommended reading for any actor, from acting students to experienced professionals. Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. She developed the memorization process outlined in this book while pursuing a career in acting