To the Actor

About this book

How does an actor learn to: Call up emotion? Develop a character? Strengthen awareness? These are essential techniques for every actor and Michael Chekhovs classic work To the Actor explains clearly and concisely how to develop them. Chekhovs simple and practical method - successfully used by professional actors all over the world - trains the actors imagination and body to fulfil its potential. This handbook for actors (and directors) has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers. It includes: a previously unpublished chapter on Psychological Gesture translated into English by the celebrated director Andrei Malaev - Babel; a new biographical overview by Mala Powers; and a foreword by Simon Callow.