The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780345805683 Author(s): William Esper Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2014 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Pages: 304

Description: Celebrated acting teacher Bill Esper's step-by-step approach to the central problem in acting- learning to play a character. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL.William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challengeofadvancedacting work- creating and playing a character.Esper's first book, The Actor's Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. The Actor's Guide to Creating a Charactercontinues 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 andthe 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.

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