Product Description

ACTIONS: The Actors' Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance.

Actors need actions. Actors cannot ‘act’ adjectives, they need verbs. Verbs are an aim to achieve, an action to perform.

‘Actions’ are active verbs. ‘I tempt you.’ ‘You taunt me.’ In order to perform an action truthfully--and therefore convincingly-- an actor needs to find exactly the right action to suit that particular situation and that particular line. That is where this book comes in….

ACTIONS is a thesaurus of active verbs that the actor can use to refine performance until s/he hits exactly the right one to help make the action come alive. ACTIONS: The Actors’ Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone & Maggie Lloyd-Williams has gathered together the (formerly) dogged-eared photocopied lists of action verbs from greenrooms and rehearsal rooms and put them together in this pocket-sized thesaurus. All with a view to helping actors get to the heart of meaning and to a great performance. This thesaurus of action words is indispensable in developing mood, line readings, and acting choices for each and every line.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50682 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

From the Publisher
This new book just released by Drama Publishers gathers together -- for the first time -- the acting community’s –- formerly — secret lists of action words and makes them available in an organized and comprehensive format.

From the Author
ACTIONS is primarily for actors:
for established professionals and beginners alike;
for students or amateur actors;
for those with training and those without.

ACTIONS can also be useful:
for music theatre performers;
for actors wrestling with audition speeches;
for those who have to breathe life into a one-dimensional television or radio commercial;
or for those who have been performing a play for months and need to reinvigorate their performance.

About the Author
Marina Caldarone is a busy freelance director who has been involved in actor training in leading schools for the past twenty years.

Maggie Lloyd-Williams has acted on stage and TV, particularly at the Royal National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe.

Terry Johnson (who writes the foreword) is the author of many successful and award-winning plays including the stage version of The Graduate, which he also directed.