TY  - BOOK
AU  - Esper,William
AU  - Dimarco,Damon
TI  - The actor's guide to creating a character: William Esper teaches the Meisner technique 
SN  - 9780345805683 (pbk.) :
AV  - PN2061 .E88 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC
KW  - Meisner, Sanford.
KW  - Acting
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
N1  - Machine generated contents note: Introduction by Patricia Heaton -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Welcome Back - and Back to Work -- Chapter Two: Gimps, Limps, and Lisps: Physical Impediments -- Chapter Three: How Being in Intense Pain Can Actually Help Your Work -- Chapter Four: How to Explore Drugs and Alcohol without Rehab, Prison, or Death -- Chapter Five: Imitation and Point of View -- Chapter Six: Come, Sit at the Table! The Essence of the Character -- Chapter Seven: Still at the Table: Actions and Super Objectives -- Chapter Eight: Beats, Homework, Inner Emotional Lines, and Particularizations -- Chapter Nine: Nursery Rhymes -- Chapter Ten: Spoon Rivers -- Chapter Eleven: Periods and Styles -- Chapter Twelve: Periods and Styles in Practice -- Chapter Thirteen: Acting in Film and TV -- Chapter Fourteen: Commencement: The Serious Actor Business -- Afterword by David Mamet
N2  - "Celebrated acting teacher Bill Esper's step-by-step approach to the central problem in acting -- learning to play a character -- as taught in the second year of his acting class"--
ER  -