Book on Acting: Improvising Acting While Speaking Scripted Lines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781879505605)

Stephen Book is a top Hollywood acting coach and teacher and a theatre director. His students have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Obies, and Grammys. Thirteen of his present or former students are featured in either starring roles or as cast regulars in the current primetime television schedule. This book contains film and television scenes in which Book-coached actors, used his Improvisation Technique to create their performances. These scenes, showing the actors' performance choices, demonstrate the use of Improvisation Technique in different genres of acting. Well-known theatre and film scenes are included, as well as scenes from such TV shows as 'Frasier', 'Melrose Place', 'Star Trek: Voyager', 'LA Law' and 'The Practice'.

Author: Stephen A. Book
ISBN-10: 1879505606
ISBN-13: 9781879505605
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2002
Pages: 629
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.43lbs
Size: 9.92h x 7.02w x 1.52d