ACTING TECHNIQUE
Stanislavski, Grotowski, Stella Adler, Chekhov and many more.

AN ACTOR’S WORK ON A ROLE
Konstantin Stanislavski
Translated by Jean Benedetti
Routledge

STANISLAVSKI THE BASICS
Rose Whyman
Routledge

THE COMPLETE STANISLAVSKI TOOLKIT
Bella Merlin
NHB

BEYOND STANISLAVSKI
Bella Merlin
NHB

ACTING STANISLAVSKI
John Gillett
Bloomsbury

SYSTEM OF REHEARSAL
Shomit Mitter
Analysis on Stanislavski, Brecht, Grotowski and Peter Brook techniques
Routledge

STANISLAVSKI, AN INTRODUCTION
Jean Benedetti
Bloomsbury

KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY
Bella MerlinRoutledge

AN ACTOR PREPARES
Constantin Stanislavski
Translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
Bloomsbury

STELLA ADLER, THE ART OF ACTING
Howard Kissel
Applause

STELLA! MOTHER OF MODERN ACTING
Sheana Ochoa
Applause

TO THE ACTOR
Michael Chekhov
Routledge

MEYERHOLD AT WORK
Paul Schmidt on Vsevolod Meyerhold
Texas University Press

MEYERHOLD ON THEATRE
Vsevolod Meyerhold writings translated by Edward Braun
Bloomsbury

THE VAKHTANGOV SOURCEBOOK
Yevgeny Vakhtangov writings edited by Malaev-Babel
Routledge

YEVGENY VAKHTANGOV, A CRITICAL PORTRAIT
Andrei Malaev-Babel
Routledge

GROTOWSKI & COMPANY
Ludwik Flaszen
Routledge

ZIGMUNT MOLIK’S VOICE AND BODY WORK (The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski)
Zigmunt Molik and Giuliano Campo
Routledge

THE EMPTY SPACE
Peter Brook
Penguin

EVOKING AND FORGETTING SHAKESPEARE
Peter Brook
NHB

THE QUALITY OF MERCY
Peter Brook
NHB

THERE ARE NO SECRETS
Peter Brook
Bloomsbury

CONVERSATIONS WITH PETER BROOK (1970-2000)
Margaret Croyden
Faber & Faber

THE SHIFTING POINT
Peter Brook
Methuen

TIP OF THE TONGUE
Reflections on Language and Meaning.
Peter Brook
NHB

THE INVISIBLE ACTOR
Yoshi Oida
Bloomsbury

AN ACTOR’S TRICKS
Yoshi Oida
Bloomsbury

AN ACTOR ADRIFT
Yoshi Oida
Methuen

THE INVISIBLE ACTOR
Yoshi Oida
Bloomsbury

SHAKESPEARE’S ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS
Peter Hall
Oberon

EXPOSED BY THE MASK
Peter Hall
Oberon

TURE AND FALSE
David Mamet
Faber & Faber

THE ACTOR AND THE TARGET
Declan Donellan
NHB

RESPECT FOR ACTING
Uta Hagen with Haskel Frankel
Wiley

MEISNER IN PRACTICE
Nick Moseley
NHB

SELECTED WRITINGS
Antonin Artaud
University of California Press

ANTONIN ARTAUD
Esays from famous thinkers edited by Edward Scheer
Routledge

THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE
Antonin Artaud
Translated by Victor Corti
Alma Classics

ARTAUD’S THEATRE OF CRUELTY
Albert Bermel
Bloomsbury

LIFE BEHIND THE MASK
Didier Mouturat
Sussex Academic Press

AFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Edited by Nicola Shaughnessy
Bloomsbury

SUSPENDING DISBELIEF
Roger Grainger
Sussex Academic Press

THEATRE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD
Alan Read
Bloomsbury

THE EDINBURGH FRINGE SURVIVAL GUIDE
Mark Fisher
Methuen

THE CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
Interviews with theatre-makers.
Edited by Duska Radosavljevic
Routledge

THE FIELD OF DRAMA
How the signs of Drama create meaning on stage and screen.
Martin Esslin
Methuen

THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
Martin Esslin
Bloomsbury

RHAPSODY FOR THE THEATRE
Alan Badiu
Verso

PERFORMANCE THEORY
Richard Schechner
Routledge

DICTIONARY OF THE THEATRE
Terms, concepts and Analysis
Patrice Pavis

THE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE ART
Anthony Howell
Routledge

TELLING THE TRUTH
HOW TO MAKE VERBATIM THEATRE
Robin Belfield
NHB

MAKING THEATRE
The frazzled drama teacher’s guide to devising.
Joss Bennathan
NHB

DEVISING THEATRE WITH STAN’S CAFE
Mark Crossley and James Yarker
Bloomsbury

GRAFT
TALES OF AN ACTOR
Steven Berkoff
Oberon

THE WORKING ACTOR
The essential guide to a successful careerPaul Clayton

ACTING CHARACTERS
20 essential steps from rehearsal to performance
Paul Elsam

HOW TO STOP ACTING
Harold Guskin
Bloomsbury

THE ACTOR’S GUIDE FOR CREATING A CHARACTER
Willaim Esper teaches the Meisner Technique
Anchor books

ACTING
THE BASICS
Bella Merlin
Routledge

ACTIONS THE ACTOR’S THESAURUS
Marina Calderone and Maggie Lloyd Williams
NHB

THE GOLDEN RULES OF ACTING
Andy Nyman
NHB

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PUPPETRY AND MATERIAL PERFORMANCE
Edited by Dassia Posner, Claudia Orenstein and John Bell.
Routledge

DRAMATIC ADVENTURES IN RHETORIC
A guide for Actors, Directors and PlaywrightsGiles Taylor and Philip Wilson
Oberon

TACKLING TEXT (AND SUBTEXT)
A step by step guide for actorsBarbara Houseman
NHB

IN DEPTH ACTING
Dee Cannon
Oberon

ACTIONING AND HOW TO DO IT
Nick Moseley
NHB

THE ACTIVE TEXT
Unlocking plays through physical theatre
Dymphna Callery
NHB

SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR?
Prunella Scales and Timothy West
NHB

FACING THE FEAR
An Actor’s Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright.Bella Merlin
NHB
A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE ACTOR
Melissa Bruder, Lee Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler
Vintage

THE PISCATOR NOTEBOOK
Judith Malina
Routledge

STEPPING STONES
Ingemar LindhRoutledge

ACTING UP
David Hare
Faber & Faber

THE CHARISMATIC CHAMELEON
Leslie O’Dell
Sussex Academic Press

THE PRESENCE OF THE ACTOR
Joseph Chaikin
TCG

THE THEORY OF THE MODERN STAGE
From Artaud to Zola, an introduction to modern theatre and dramaEdited by Eric Bentley
Penguin

ETTIENNE DECROUX AND HIS THEATRE LABORATORY
Marco de Marinis
Routledge

THE CECROUX SOURCEBOOK
Edited by Thomas Leabhart and Franc Chamberlain
Routledge

BOOK OF SIDES
Original, short scenes for actors and directors
Dave Kost
Focal Press

THEATER FOR BEGINNERS
Richard Maxwell
Theatre Communication Group

WHY IS IT SO FUNNY?
John Wright
NHB

THEATRE IN PRACTICE
A Student’s Handbook
Nick O’Brien and Annie Sutton
Routledge

IT’S ALL ALLOWED
THE PERFORMANCES OF ADRIAN HOWELLS
Edited by Deidre Heddon and Dominic Johnson
LADA

AVANT GARDE THEATRE 1892-1992
Christopher Innes
Routledge

LIVENESS
Performance in a mediatized culture.
Philip Auslander
Routledge

THEATRE AS SIGN SYSTEM
A Semiotics of Text and Performance
Elaine Aston and George Savona
Routledge

THE IMPROVISATION BOOK
John Abbott
NHB

IMPROVISATION IN REHEARSAL
John Abbott
NHB

THE IMPROV HANDBOOK
Tom Slinsky and Deborah Frances-White
Bloomsbury

THE SEMIOTICS OF CLOWNS AND CLOWNING
Paul Bouissac
Bloomsbury
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PUPPETRY AND MATERIAL PERFORMANCE
Dassia Posner and others
Routledge
THEATER GAMES FOR THE LONE ACTOR
A HANDBOOK
Viola Spolin
Northwestern University Press