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Actors! Engage your mind and your body in order to develop your characters fully. The Lucid Body technique breaks up stagnant movement patterns and expands your emotional and physical range. Through energy analysis, this program shows how to use physical training to create characters from all walks of life - however cruel, desolate, or neurotic those characters may be.

The Fox Nation host, Fox News contributor, and social media master argues that it’s time to square your shoulders, stand your ground and speak the truth. The conventional wisdom is that we need more civility and fewer arguments. If you have a controversial option, keep it to yourself. Tomi...

Shakespeare knew more about the art of acting and the art of theater than any other playwright—but there is no general consensus about how Shakespeare should be played. There are no rules. In A Shakespearean Actor Prepares, actor, director, and teacher Adrian Brine teams up with celebrated actor Michael York to reveal these keys. In pointing out sources of energy in Shakespeare's plays, they make it possible for actors to galvanize their fantasy and liberate their talents.

Rush Limbaugh is a way of life for over twelve million avid and devoted listeners. For three hours every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with “talent on loan from God”​​ entertains, provokes and persuades friend sand enemies alike in a no-holds-barred show that is one of the...

When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can't resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn't mind Jake's charming sincerity. Then, the job-stealing chicken suddenly disappears...

Magnificent in scope, internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name. The Lehman Trilogy follows the epic rise and fall of three generations of that infamous family and through them tells the story of...

Essie Cobb, senior sleuth, and her three gal pals Opal, Marjorie, and Fay are playing cards (and causing trouble) in the all-purpose room at the Happy Haven Retirement Home. Not even having to use walkers to get around will stop these ladies from getting into trouble! A one-act play based on the Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth mysteries by Patricia Rockwell. This play may be produced by amateur groups without a royalty payment.

This is a splendid classic book on stage fencing by a real master - both as military instructor and as a specialist in this special skill adapted to the theatre. Contains as well some fascinating information on the old real-life fencing, the duels, the battles, the famous fencing masters, and schools. Easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to learn.

From his agent's phone call offering him the role of Estragon, Lucian Msamati brings brilliantly to life the experience of co-starring with Ben Whishaw in James Macdonald's celebrated production of Waiting for Godot in London's West End. Through rehearsal room highs and lows, workaday laughs and tears, literal stumbles and grumbles, we journey with Lucian, his fellow actors and creatives, and Beckett's play, sharing in the personal and dramaturgical discoveries they make and the inevitable emotional contours of an experience as intense as this one.

Shares a series of mindfulness techniques and improv exercises with masks to suppress the ego, calm the mind, and allow spontaneous playfulness and spaciousness to arise from your deepest nature Draws on Buddhist philosophy to describe how and why the exercises work Woven throughout...

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites 40 actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time...

2016 Christopher Award Winner From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's...

Ida Lupino was a trail-blazer. Not only was she one of the most vibrant Hollywood actresses of the 1940s and 1950s, but she was also only the second woman to become a member of the Director's Guild. Michael B. Druxman's one-woman play, Ida: The Last Lupino, joins Ida in 1983 when she is living alone in her decaying Brentwood home as a virtual hermit, lamenting the break-up of her marriage with Howard Duff. Ida: The Last Lupino is a vivid, often witty, portrait of a woman who conquered a man's world.

Three monologues in verse, performed by the author. In Group Theory, a week's worth of misdelivered mail leads an apartment dweller on a journey through the refracted symmetries of self. In Parsimony, a man returns home after a car crash, drugged up and teetering on crutches, to find that a strange new neighbor has moved into the back room behind his kitchen. In Teratology, the distant arching dome of a train station looms over four stranded travelers, four strangers trapped together for a long night.

From the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the novel as well as the story . . . Effortlessly engaging” —Sven Birkerts, The New York Times), a sharp, affecting, masterly new novel about a close-knit theater community in Memphis and one turbulent, transformative...

Step inside the Elizabethan playhouse where mysteries abound. Act 1: Who would perform murders on stage? Act 2: Why would someone kidnap a young apprentice actor? Act 3: Would the players rebel against the Queen? In the heart of the 17th-century playhouse district, Sara Watson, the proprietor of Willow Wood Apothecary, is no stranger to blood and mayhem. But when a series of gruesome murders threatens to alert court spies, Sara joins forces not only with Sheriff Hawkins but also with a young apprentice actor, his loyal canine, and a retired fighting bear. The clock is ticking, and this ...

In this book, acclaimed actor Paterson Joseph opens up the process of rehearsing and preparing for the RSC's 2012 production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and, by doing so, brings a greater understanding to the play's characters; its rhetoric and the power of rhetoric in general, both on and off stage; its setting and political context and how this can be interpreted and refreshed for the 21st century.

Have you ever wanted to be in the movies or on TV? How about if you got paid to be on screen? It is possible, by working as an extra, also called a background actor. Extra opportunities are available all across the United States. This book covers all the basics, including getting an extra gig, what to expect on your first job, what to bring with you, how to get paid, getting extra upgrades, and much, much more. Extensive resources are included at the end of the books, including two dozen agencies in the US, Canada, and the UK. Several pages of definitions are also provided, along with ...

A selection of Euripides’ renowned Greek tragedies, adapted for BBC Radio Acclaimed by Aristotle as ‘the most tragic of the poets’, Euripides was one of the pre-eminent playwrights of 5th century Athens. Included here are seven of his masterpieces: powerful, shocking tales of passion...