BOOK REVIEW: PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE ACTOR by Several authors.

Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. This time it’s the highly acclaimed “Practical Handbook for the Actor” whose authors (all of who are young actors) include: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto and Scott Zigler.

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BOOK REVIEW: “NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN PLAYS” Edited by Myron Matlaw

<br />Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. In this case its one of the Applause books: “Nineteenth Century American Plays”

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BOOK REVIEW: SCREENWRITING FOR DUMMIES By Laura Schellhardt

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Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. In this case its one of the Dummies ed. Books.

These books are simply wonderful. If I ever feel like I want to learn about a new subject I have no idea about or am overwhelmed, then I always turn to Dummies. They give you insight in a very reader-friendly manner, touching all subjects related to the topic at hand, providing you with any information you need.

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BOOK REVIEW: TRUE AND FALSE By David Mamet

Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. This time it’s the Hard-edged “True and False” by David Mamet…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE TRANSPERSONAL ACTOR Reinterpreting Stanislavski by Ned Manderino

Manderino  makes very good points with which I agree right off the bat. Such as the need to respect for tradition, but the belief that techniques of Stanislavski or Boleslavski should have been used as a springboard for further development. Not as something static…

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BOOK REVIEW: ACCENTS By Robert Blumenfeld

Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. In this case its Robert Blumenfeld’s revised and expanded edition of “Accents: A manual for actors”.

It’s a great tool to give us actors and one that is so complete is hard to come along. The one-place to find it all.

The book includes:
-Asian Accents: Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Burmese, Thai, Indonesian….etc
-African Accents: South African, Zulu, Sub-Saharan, Ethiopian, Nigerian, Ugandan, Congo, Swahili…etc.
-Middle Eastern: Arabic Accents, Egyptian, Hebrew, Persian…etc
-Slavic Accents: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian…
-Germanic Accents: German, Prussian, Bavarian, Viennese, Yiddish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish…etc
-Romance Accents: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian…etc.

But what is truly impressive is that it separates…

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