William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character.

Esper’s first book, The Actor’s Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting classThe Actor’s Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper’s second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class. Esper’s training builds on Sanford Meisner’s legendary exercises, a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors.

His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role, helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.


Format Häftad Omfång 304 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Random House USA Inc Utgivningsdatum 2014-04-08 ISBN 9780345805683