Sanford Meisner On Acting (Vintage) is a guide for those who want to polish their acting skills. Sanford Meisner is a hugely influential drama teacher and called “theater’s best kept secret”. The book takes its readers through a class of eight men and eight women as they undergo Meisner’s 15-month course at New York’s Neighbourhood Playhouse. Meisner has developed his own special lessons for teaching acting. The extensive transcripts are directly taken from Meisner’s notes to his students each of which are based on their exercises. Meisner was of the opinion that clarity of purpose and the efficient use of the psyche are an actor’s greatest tools. The book shows how the class of 16 men and women are taken through the most rudimentary exercises at the beginning and how the class ends with the ability to portray polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Sanford Meisner On Acting (Vintage) was published by Vintage in 1987. The first edition of the book is available in paperback.
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.?the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists?and an utter enigma. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller?s private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subjects? troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. But he also uncovers the profound religiosity that drove him ?to give all I could?; his devotion to his father; and the wry sense of humor that made him the country?s most colorful codger. Titan is a magnificent biography?balanced, revelatory, elegantly written.
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