Actions: The Actors\' Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a Thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance.
This Thesaurus of action words is indispensable in developing mood, line readings, and acting choices for each and every line..
All with a view to helping actors get to the heart of meaning and to a great performance.
Actions: The Actors’ Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone & Maggie Lloyd-Williams has gathered together the (formerly) dogged-eared photocopied lists of action verbs from greenrooms and rehearsal rooms and put them together in this pocket-sized thesaurus.
ACTIONS is a Thesaurus of active verbs that the actor can use to refine performance until s/he hits exactly the right one to help make the action come alive.
That is where this book comes in…. ‘I tempt you.’ ‘You taunt me.’ In order to perform an action truthfully--and therefore convincingly-- an actor needs to find exactly the right action to suit that particular situation and that particular line. ‘Actions’ are active verbs.
Verbs are an aim to achieve, an action to perform.
Actors cannot ‘act’ adjectives, they need verbs.
Actors need actions.
Actions: The Actors\' Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a Thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance
