10 Best theatre books like Actioning - and How to Do It by Nick Moseley

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Actioning - and How to Do It

By: Nick Moseley

4.37

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Actioning - and How to Do It is the indispensable companion to a vital component in every actor's t…

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1. Men Explain Things to Me

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more

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"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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2. The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

4.12

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more

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"Lonely was much better than alone."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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3. Bull

By: Mike Bartlett

3.70

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt... A sav… read more

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4. Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus

By: Marina Caldarone , Maggie Lloyd-Williams

4.37

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Actors need actions. They cannot act adjectives, they need verbs. This thesaurus of active verbs he… read more

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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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"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. A Practical Handbook for the Actor

By: David Mamet , Melissa Bruder , Lee Michael Cohn , Madeleine Olnek , None , None , None

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playw… read more

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7. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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8. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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9. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

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10. This is Our Youth

By: Kenneth Lonergan

0.00

Format: None pages,

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclu… read more

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11. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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12. How to Stop Acting

By: Kevin E. Kline , None

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

"The Great Guskin" (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land role… read more

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13. The Elephant Man

By: Bernard Pomerance

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

"The Elephant Man" is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part… read more

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14. Look Back in Anger

By: John Osborne

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more

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15. I Am a Camera

By: Christopher Isherwood , John van Druten

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

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16. An Actor Prepares

By: Constantin Stanislavski , Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own … read more

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17. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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18. The Merchant of Venice

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

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

19. Voice and the Actor

By: Cicely Berry

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

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20. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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21. True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

By: David Mamet

3.18

Format: 159 pages,

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest… read more

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22. The God of Carnage

By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A… read more

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23. The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide

By: Jenna Fischer

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hom… read more

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24. The Servant of Two Masters (Plays for Performance Series)

By: Carlo Goldoni

3.83

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wai… read more

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25. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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26. 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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27. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

In the Next Room or the vibrator playis a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in … read more

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28. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

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"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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29. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

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"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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30. Actioning - and How to Do It

By: Nick Moseley

4.37

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Actioning - and How to Do It is the indispensable companion to a vital component in every actor's t… read more

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31. The Southbury Child (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Stephen Beresford

3.92

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

Raffish, urbane and frequently drunk, David Highland has kept a grip on his remote coastal parish t… read more

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14 best-selling fiction books like The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Duck

David Eldridge , Henrik Ibsen

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Miss Julie

David French , August Strindberg

3.87

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Samuel Beckett

3.63

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