The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

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Synopsis
William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Esper's first book, The Actor's Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper's second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class. Esper's training builds on Sanford Meisner's legendary exercises, a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors. His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role, helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.
Copyright:
2014

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780345805690
Related ISBNs:
9780345805683
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
William Esper and Damon DiMarco
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Introduction by:
Patricia Heaton

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