Focal Press The Actor Training Reader

The Actor Training Reader from Focal Press is a resource for students and teachers of acting, offering access to a wide range of key texts that identify, explore, illuminate, and interrogate the challenges, practices, and processes involved in training the modern actor. A companion volume to the highly acclaimed Actor Training (Hodge 2010), this book collects key writings by influential actor training practitioners of the twentieth century, introduced with essays from leading academics in the field of actor training. Key practitioners included are: Eugenio Barba, Anne Bogart, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Brook, Michael Chekhov, and Konstantin Stanislavsky.