Rating: Summary: A Great Tool for All Actors Review: This book is great. Most theatre classes and books have you go through lots of exercises without ever telling you the point. Here the book outlines exercises and their purpose. Plus it is a relatively short read so you can come back to it over and over. This is great for both students of the stage and theatrical teachers.
Rating: Summary: Horrible Book, Impossible to Follow Review: This book is not only boring, and poorly written, it's near impossible to follow. I would never recommend this book.
Rating: Summary: Horrible Book, Impossible to Follow Review: This book is not only boring, and poorly written, it's near impossible to follow. I would never recommend this book.
Rating: Summary: Simple and effective! Review: This is simple straightforward book - I read it in less than two hours. It also details a tried-and-true acting technique. Most of the concepts discussed in this book were not new ones to me, but I've never seen them as concisely and well-expressed as here.But as the book warns, don't close your mind to other techniques. There is merit in other schools of acting, though they are not always obvious at first sight. And above all, to become a good actor, you need to commit yourself and put in the effort. You're not going to become a Meyrl Streep overnight.
Rating: Summary: Makes the"Method" make sense! Review: Without a doubt this book makes sense. From the opening paragraph of David Mamets Foreword to the final chapter, this book will have you shaking your head in agreement or shouting out "That's Right!!!" This is a book for anyone just starting out in acting who wants to start off right. It is also a book for those who have studied, taken courses, workshops and been around the block enough times to be confused by the amount of BS some teachers will feed you for their weekly fee. O.K. so after you have read the book you will realize that it doesn't really preach the method. But this book does follow in the footsteps and along the same ideals if not practices of the greats like Sanford Meisner, Micheal Chekov and David Mamet.
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