Acting One/Acting Two

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 528 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The new, fifth edition of Robert Cohens "Acting One," the text used to teach acting on more campuses than any other, has now been combined for the first time with his "Acting Two, " (the second edition of his previously-titled "Advanced Acting"). Together, "Acting One/Acting Two" provides a "comprehensive and fully integrated system of all acting," from the most realistic to the most stylized. Part One ("Acting One") covers basic skills such as talking, listening, tactical interplay, physicalizing, building scenes, and making powerful acting choices. Part Two ("Acting Two") provides a series of exercises that encourage the student actors self-extension into radically different styles (historical, literary, fantastical) and characterizations; then coaches the student through scenework in a variety of historical periods (Greek, Commedia, Elizabethan, Moliere, Restoration, Belle Epoque), as well as modern hyper-realistic theatrical forms such as the theatres of alienation and the absurd, and exemplary recent dramas by Tony Kushner, Margaret Edson, August Wilson and Doug Wright.

ISBN: 9780073288543