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This revolutionary book details the development of a set of exercises to help actors overcome problems not addressed in other methods. It is not a book based on theory - all the exercises illustrated and explained were originated by the author and hundreds of actors and acting students both in productions and at Britain's top drama schools over two decades.

They have been tested and refined in the rehearsal room and on stage.

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They teach:

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  • How to be 'in the moment'

  • How to gain access to the wonderful power of the imagination

  • How to access, integrate and properly use the emotions of the character

  • How to overcome difficulties with learning lines

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The exercises help the actor to

  • find the energy at the heart of all good characters

  • open up their imagination to the vast storehouse of their brain with all its resources

  • understand the text on a deeper, less superficial, more immediate level

  • find that flow that is at the heart of being 'in-the-moment'

  • connect to the deep feelings in emotions

  • release and integrate these so that they can communicate them to an audience

  • recreate performance without conscious thought

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