The Playing Is the Thing
Subtitle: Learning the Art of Acting Through Games and Exercises
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Wolf Creek Press (Burbank, CA)
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780963965516
Subjects: Acting; Performing Arts; Career/Job; Acting & Auditioning; Theater - General
Description: This invaluable guidebook provides a clear, concise map for finding the character's inner life through play and guided exercises. Focuses on mastery of concentration, listening, script analysis, visualization, and methods for developing spontaneity, ensemble, interaction, emotional freedom, relaxation, and imagination.

Whether you are a teacher, actor, or director, this book will be your constant guide. You will refer to it again and again for the classroom-tested exercises written in the same straightforward and accessible style as Ms. Jesse's earlier work, Let the Part Play You.