Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television
by Judith Weston

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• ISBN13: 9780941188241
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Book Review: Visions of Life
Summary: 5 Stars

Then I started reading Directing Actors, in anticipation of my first workshop with Judith Weston, and I was overcome with feelings of exhilaration as well as trepidation. (Could I really do these exercises and get a performance?) At the same time, I was amazed that someone was able to finally transcend that touchy-feely Milky Way into a Galaxy where there was order and form and process. A real handbook for unchartered territory! Someone finally had the vision to explain acting as a reflection of real life.

To get more to the point, the techniques in Directing Actors work; they are learnable, understandable, and very practical. And most importantly, repeatable.

Having participated in two of Judith's workshops, I can say that the woman behind the text is the real thing. Judith's research is the result of years of navigating through the stars, and the stardust. You will be amazed at how the exercises work, and you will learn to look at acting in a new light. No more mystery where it shouldn't be.

You have read other books that speak of intangible things, or theory, or "magic". This book is different. It is a textbook, the one and only book you should own if you want to act, direct, or even write, in my opinion. Why? Because Judith gets molecular with the process of making a performance real.

When you look up into the sky you see scores of stars. But there are a thousand times more you cannot see. Judith gives light to those black holes - so that you will always have a bearing on where you are going in any acting or directing situation. You will have tools to keep an actor in the moment.

Buy this book. It will answer most of the questions you have ever had about the craft. You will be asked to do a lot of work in this book - and the result will be a set of skills that you will own - inside. Skills you will be able to use. And that will give you confidence, purpose, and the end to the dreaded "freeze". Never again will you be without ideas or options.

Judith, I hope you read this. You and your book are amazing. Thank you. I know now that I could absolutely, positively direct a feature length film. And I did not know that before I was enlightened with your training. Your book was the first step.

I have used the techniques in Directing Actors, and have also found my own center and my own variation on the methods - because I have received an education, not just a book.

Buy this book today, and get the secret map through the nebula of this thing we call a performance. Five stars indeed!

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