Notes on Acting: A Practical Guide for Actors (Much Ado About Acting)

If you are interested in learning how to ACT and create a believable CHARACTER, look no further!! This is a practical guidebook for ACTORS that want to explore the craft of ACTING. Written by Dr. Terri Power, these Notes on Acting have been compiled after years of working as a professional actor, director, and performance teacher. The guidebook details a practical method for approaching roles, inhabiting characters, and creating realistic performances for stage and screen. Each section offers insights and exercises that will help any actor, from the amateur to the professional, develop and enrich their ACTING skills. The technique Power shares is derived from a variety of systems and methods introduced by world-renowned acting and performance practitioners (Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler, Morris, etc.) infused with Power’s own professional practice. This approach can be applied to contemporary as well as classical forms of performance.