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Advice to the Players

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ISBN-10: 1559360038

ISBN-13: 9781559360036

Edition: 1989 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert Lewis, Harold Clurman

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Since founding the Actors Studio with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford in 1947, Robert Lewis has earned a reputation as one of the country's leading teachers of acting. In Advice to the Players, Lewis presents a clear program of study for the actor, with detailed exercises to strengthen technique. He calls on his vast range of experience to illuminate common problems and suggest means to solve them. The areas covered include: relaxation, body work, concentration, imagination, sensory perception, improvisation and emotion. Lewis's practicality and wisdom, and his genius for delineating-simply and straightforwardly-the vital elements of the actor's craft, make this book an invaluable tool for…    
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Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.20" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

YUKIHIRO OZAKI, PHD, is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan. He is also a coeditor of the books Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Principles, Instruments, Applications and Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy: Applications in Vibrational and Optical Spectroscopy, both published by Wiley.W. FRED MCCLURE, PHD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.ALFRED A. CHRISTY, PHD, is a Professor scholarship holder in Chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway.

Preface
Introduction
Relaxation and Energizing
Body Work
Concentration
Imagination
Sensory Perception
Intention
Improvisation
Work on Roles
Emotion
Criticism of Scenes
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An Actor Transforms
Style Exercises
Acting in Opera and Musicals
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