Synopses & Reviews
What, when you first read a play, makes you think: I have to play this part? That's the first question Roy Harris asks 13 actors in this entertaining and informative book on the technique of acting. Some of the finest actors working in theatre, television, and films today--Julie Harris, Charles Durning, Ron Rifkin, S. Epatha Merkeson, Robert Sean Leonard, Cynthia Nixon, Roger Rees, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Sab Shimono, Stockard Channing, Victor Garber, Madeleine Kahn, Terry Kinney--address questions about technique and preparation. Over 70 black and white photos of the actors in some of their most memorable roles. Roy Harris was the stage manager for the Broadway production of The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosensweig. Illustrated
Synopsis
Roy Harris interviews 13 actors in this entertaining and informative book on the technique of acting.
About the Author
Roy Harris has stage managed on Broadway Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter, The Sisters Rosensweig, and The Heidi Chronicles and the revival of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. Off-Broadway, he stage managed Jon Robin Baitz's A Fair Country, A.R. Gurney's Sylvia, and Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room, among many others. He is the editor of Conversations in the Wings: Talking About Acting (Heinemann, 1994).Peggy Harrison received an MA from Ohio State University. She is currently team teaching a fourth-fifth grade combination class at Wickliffe Informal Alternative School in Upper Arlington, Ohio. She is a presenter at workshops throughout Ohio and Michigan.