acting

The author presents an account of her own struggle with the techniques of acting, and discusses her own teaching methods which encourage actors to search for realties with themselves to better serve the character and the play.

Follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months as they are led by Sanford Meisner in the development of their craft.

Presents over fifty monologues for women from the 2001 theatrical season including selections from "Degas in New Orleans," "The Altruists," "The Last of the Thorntons," "Mothering Heights," and others.

Presents a collection of monologues and short scenes adapted from classic novels, stories, poems, essays, and plays.

Presents fifty-two monologues from plays first performed at the Women's Project.

A deaf fourth-grader finds her true calling when she is cast as Dorothy in a school production of "The Wizard of Oz.".

Second grade is over and Jules is on her way to Quebec to film a spy movie, but she misses all her friends, and with only a hockey player and a diva starlet as cast mates in a place where nobody speaks English, she is feeling lonely--and her mother will not even let her go bungee-jumping.