Actions
The Actors' Thesaurus Marina Caldarone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams

$19.95

192 Pages
4¾x8½ Paper

		Drama Publishers / QSM
	
9780896762527
0-89676-252-1

Category: Acting

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Actors need actions. They cannot "act" adjectives. They need verbs which give them an action to perform. This indispensable companion for actors and directors is a handy, pocket-sized thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance.

Long a secret of the acting community are those random lists of action words (in very dog-eared photocopy format) that circulate through rehearsal rooms. This book pulls these vital words together and makes them available for the first time in an organized and comprehensive format.

Actions are active verbs. "I tempt you." "You taunt me." In order to perform an action truthfully --and thus convincingly--the actor needs to find exactly the right action to suit a particular situation and a particular line reading. This is where Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus comes to the rescue.

With a foreword by author and director Terry Johnson.

About Marina Caldarone

Marina Caldarone has been a freelance theatre director since 1984, as well as Associate Director of Theatr Clwyd, resident director at National Theatre studio, and Artistic Director of Queens Theatre, Hornchurch. She has been a radio drama producer since 2000 and an acting coach for television. She is drama director of Crying Out Loud, a voice-over CD production company, and compiles monologue and duologue collections. She is a regular tutor and guest director at The Actors Centre, Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview, and East 15 and has been the radio drama tutor at Rose Bruford College since 2000. She has taught at Middlesex University and Birkbeck University, Thames Valley University, and IES London. She holds a BA Honors in Drama from University College of Wales.