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Acting Without Agony An Alternative to the Method

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ISBN-10: 0205151655

ISBN-13: 9780205151653

Edition: 2nd 1994

Authors: Don Richardson, Helen Hayes

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This practical, step-by-step guide is organized into 18 lessons for achieving outstanding performance in acting and directing. This text offers an alternative to the Stanislavsky "method" and teaches another way of arriving at emotions, which is described in detail throughout the text. MARKETS: Undergraduate and graduate courses in acting and directing.
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Book details

List price: $111.80
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682

DON RICHARDSON, the bestselling author of Peace Child, Eternity in Their Hearts, and Heaven Wins, has been studying the Muslim world for more than 30 years. He and his late wife, Carol, spent 15 years among the Sawi, a Stone Age tribe of Irian Jaya. Don designed an alphabet suited to the Sawi language, authored 19 primers, taught the tribesmen to read in their native tongue, and translated the entire New Testament. More than half of the Sawi accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Since 1977, Don has served as ambassador-at-large for World Team, a mission organization. Don holds an honorary doctorate of literature from Biola University in La Mirada, California, is an ordained…    

Foreword by Helen Hayes
Introduction to the Course
What Is Acting?
What Must I Think?
Who Is My Character?
What Are Feelings?
What My Body Remembers
Stretching My Emotional Range
Planning My Performance
Going Beyond My Boundaries
What Kind of Play Is It?
Mastering My Five Senses
Creating Experiences I've Never Had
Can I Play Comedy?
Working with the Director
Finding My Way on Stage
Can I Play Shakespeare?
Acting For the Camera
Solving Special Problems
Sharpening My Skills
Subject Index
Name Index