Practical Handbook for the Actor

<b>For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class <b>this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years (David Mamet from the Introduction).<br></b></b><br>This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors all of them young actors in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet actor W. H. Macy and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job the authors state is to find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play. The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book.