Acting from the Ultimate Consciousness

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Summary: Acting on Mars.
Review: Eric Morris has written some of the best books on acting ever written. They are loaded with wonderful exercises and insights into acting never before put on paper. They explore the instrument, the craft, choices for material, choice approaches and have helped me so much both as an actor, director and teacher. Those books are No Acting Please, Being and Doing and Irrevent Acting! Read them in that order at once and your acting, directing and teaching will immediately become more dimensional and enhanced They are eye openers.

This one however I believe goes to far. It's not as accessible as the others and goes to far into new agey type exercises that are just not as accesible as the exercises in the other books. The semantics also get very confusing in this book. Words like "selective enhancement", "Imaging" and using your "dreams" to enhance your acting." I found myself thinking--"you've got to be joking." I just felt in reading it that Eric just went a bit too far into outer space. Eric come back to earth! The best part of the book is some of the material already covered in Irreverent Acting.--which is a far better book.

In summation, I think this book will be very confusing to actors who have not read all of the other books or studied with Eric and might be turn off to Eric's work as it is confusing and ethereal. So run to the book store and buy those other books and save this one for when you just haven't gotten enough of Eric Morris' Acting Books and maybe want to travel to outer space.