12 Top theatre books like The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida

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The Invisible Actor

By: Yoshi Oida

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Yoshi Oida is completely unique. A Japanese actor and director who has worked mainly in the West as…

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1. The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

By: William Esper , Damon DiMarco

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner… read more

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  • theatre
  • nonfiction
"Discipline is what separates the artist from the appreciator of art."

-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

"Impulses are the most important things we have as artists. Stop judging them. Get out of their way and follow wherever they lead."

-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

"Certain words, certain expressions. Things like ‘I love you’ and ‘I hate you.’ They’re big traps for actors. They can tempt you away from the connection you’ve developed with your partner and lead yo…"

-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

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2. A Room of One’s Own

By: Virginia Woolf

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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3. Ainda estou aqui

By: Marcelo Rubens Paiva

4.29

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Trinta e cinco anos depois de Feliz ano velho, a luta de uma família pela verdade Eunice Paiva é… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Interesante como a divisão de classes cria rituais próprios, que aumentam a distância entre elas."

-Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Ainda estou aqui

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4. Towards a Poor Theatre

By: Jerzy Grotowski , Eugenio Barba

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1968, Jerzy Grotowski's groundbreaking book is available once again. As a r… read more

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  • theatre
  • art
  • nonfiction
"The main point then is that an actor should not try to acquire any kind of recipe or build up a "box of tricks." This is no place for collecting all sorts of means of expression."

-Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre

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5. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

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  • theatre
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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6. La Cantatrice chauve

By: Eugène Ionesco

3.76

Format: 149 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tout le monde la connaît. Peu peuvent l'expliquer. C'est ce que fait à merveille Emmanuel Jacquart,… read more

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  • theatre
  • read for school
"Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver."

-Eugène Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve

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7. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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  • theatre
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8. An Anatomy of Drama

By: Martin Esslin

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

print price and ISBN with bar code on back cover read more

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  • theatre
  • art
  • nonfiction
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9. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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  • theatre
"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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10. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • theatre
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11. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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12. The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique -- The 12-Step Acting Technique That Will Take You from Script to a Living, Breathing, Dynamic Character

By: Ivana Chubbuck

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • theatre
  • art
  • nonfiction

13. The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more

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  • nonfiction

14. The Theater and Its Double

By: Antonin Artaud , None

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

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15. Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more

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16. To the Actor

By: Simon Callow , Michael Chekhov

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

How does an actor learn to: * Call up emotion? * Develop a character? * Strengthen awareness? These… read more

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17. The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

By: Peter Brook

3.87

Format: 309 pages,

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18. The Blind Assassin

By: Margaret Atwood

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more

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19. An Enemy of the People

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more

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20. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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21. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

22. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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23. The Open Door

By: Peter Brook

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From King Learto the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sadeto the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has rei… read more

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24. Vestido de Noiva

By: Nelson Rodrigues

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Brochura

A peca que revolucionou o teatro brasileiro conta a historia de Alaide, moca atropelada por um auto… read more

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25. The Actor and the Target: New Edition

By: Declan Donnellan

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

"Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it i… read more

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26. Torto Arado

By: Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more

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"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

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27. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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28. Apropos of Nothing

By: Woody Allen

4.02

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust."

-Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

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29. The Moving Body : Le Corps Poetique

By: Jacques Lecoq

4.29

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Until his death in 1999, Jacques Lecoq taught indefatigably at the International Mime and Theatre s… read more

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  • theatre
  • art
  • nonfiction
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30. The Invisible Actor

By: Yoshi Oida

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Yoshi Oida is completely unique. A Japanese actor and director who has worked mainly in the West as… read more

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  • art
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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31. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer

By: Eugenio Barba

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. read more

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  • nonfiction

11 must-read nonfiction books like The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida

Transform Your Habits

The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

William Esper , Damon DiMarco

4.48

Transform Your Habits

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Ainda estou aqui

Marcelo Rubens Paiva

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Towards a Poor Theatre

Jerzy Grotowski , Eugenio Barba

4.23

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Transform Your Habits

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle

4.15

Transform Your Habits

İnsan Olmak

Engin Geçtan

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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