Actor's Guide to Creating a Character

William Esper one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. <p/>Esper's first book <i>The Actor's Art and Craft</i> earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. <i>The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character </i>continues the journey. In these pages co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper's second-year course again through the experiences of a fictional class. Esper's training builds on Sanford Meisner's legendary exercises a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors. His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.