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