The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique |
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| Author:
| Esper, William
Dimarco, Damon |
| Introduction by:
| Heaton, Patricia |
| Afterword by:
| Mamet, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-345-80568-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Anchor |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionWilliam 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.