Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition is a dynamic response to recent societal and entertainment industry changes focusing on inclusion diversity and equity and the actor's trajectory from training to rehearsal to performance on stage and screen with hands-on tools and global perspectives. The book offers vital ways of building a practical acting toolkit through breath body voice emotions imagination and spirit. We begin with a socio-cultural look at actor as magician storyteller healer and social changer. Throughout there are insights from Black Indigenous First Nations South/East Asian intercultural and feminist practitioners together with methods focusing on disability and accessibility intimacy directives mindfulness and intersectionality. Key 'canonical' figures still feature (e.g. Stanislavsky Meisner Brecht and Suzuki) with re-visioned perspective. Scattered throughout are post-COVID insights plus expanded sections on screen acting (including self-tapes) and Shakespeare. This book is useful for beginner or expert as it's always helpful getting back to basics. Because the author is both an actor and an actor trainer the tools are steeped in user-friendly application. At the same time transferable skills (e.g. dynamic listening and empathy) are shown as relevant to everyone. With a glossary of terms and useful online suggestions (including blogs videos and podcasts) this is ideal for anyone learn anew about the practice and history of acting or to take their acting and teaching into new terrain. |Acting The Basics | Theatre and Performance
