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Book on Acting: Improvisation Techniques for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television

Paperback by Book, Stephen

Book on Acting: Improvisation Techniques for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television

£25.99

ISBN:
9781879505605
Publication Date:
1 Nov 2001
Language:
English
Publisher:
Silman-James Press,U.S.
Pages:
630 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 7 - 8 Aug 2026
Book on Acting: Improvisation Techniques for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television

Description

Stephen Book is a top Hollywood acting coach and teacher and a theatre director. His students have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Obies, and Grammys. Thirteen of his present or former students are featured in either starring roles or as cast regulars in the current primetime television schedule. This book contains film and television scenes in which Book-coached actors, used his Improvisation Technique to create their performances. These scenes, showing the actors' performance choices, demonstrate the use of Improvisation Technique in different genres of acting. Well-known theatre and film scenes are included, as well as scenes from such TV shows as 'Frasier', 'Melrose Place', 'Star Trek: Voyager', 'LA Law' and 'The Practice'.

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