Books like Approaches to acting by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

A practical guide to Sanford Meisner’s acting technique, illustrated through fifteen months of classroom work with eight men and eight women, culminating in polished scenes from contemporary plays.

"Book on Acting begins with immediate training in how to improvise. Book's fundamental principle of improvisation is "Acting is doing, and there is always more to do." The actor learns what to do to keep himself in a spontaneous improvisational state.". "The Improvisation Technique is then applied to exercises with scripted lines, developing sophisticated improvisation skills for enhancing character, emotions, conflict, and agreement as well as improving the actor's audition process. Also included is a unique process for breaking down scripted scenes into improvisation choices."--BOOK JACKET.

125 geared‑up exercising techniques to cut out tension, fear and inhibition, letting actors access a pure “being” state without adhering to concept or presentational acting.

A practical guide to Uta Hagen’s influential acting techniques, featuring her famed Object Exercises and lessons in sense memory, identity, and substitution.

You can now experience the same training studied by some of out finest actors, including: Robert Duvall, Joanne Woodward, Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Gregory Peck, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach and many others. With a foreword by Academy Award Winner and theatre legend, Horton Foote, this inspiring new book will strengthen in you the most essential and vital skills of great acting! It will lead you to a very personal way of working, as an actor who is absolutely authentic and tremendously simple - so rare in today's theatre. The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook Volume I is appropriate for any actor, from beginning student to working professional. As you experience the joy of discovery offered in each lesson, the Workbook will awaken within you a profound passion to create and a hunger to express yourself as an artist of the theatre, An Actor!

This book describes techniques developed by Augusto Boal as part of Theatre of the Oppressed. These are theatre techniques used to work with communities and groups, to help members find resolutions to conflicts.

A practical guide that examines the actor’s mindset and provides exercises to deepen thought‑into‑action performance.