Action

<p> This work is a straightforward approach to the creative process of actor training. Combining principles of verbal and nonverbal communication with the basic tenets of Stanislavski's approach it includes a step-by-step guide for reading analyzing and preparing a text for performance. The book also provides a template for rehearsing a sonnet a soliloquy and scenes from plays of heightened language ranging from Shakespeare Moliere and Congreve to Ibsen Shaw and Lynn Nottage.</p><p> Using improvisation games and exercises with a series of tools designed to enhance the creative process the book outlines the specific steps necessary to engage in the basic tenets of acting: overcoming obstacles and playing action-based objectives. Enlarging the field of study to include status opposition and releasing as well as scansion and an emphasis on operative words and images the actor emerges from this training process prepared to play any text in any style under any circumstance with confidence ease and a sense of joy.</p>