An intensely practical handbook chiefly for student actors on how to cope with text, character and situation. Having helped the actor with basic vocal technique, in her enormously successful previous book, Finding Your Voice, Barbara Houseman now shows the actor how to cope with the demands posed by the playtext itself. Throughout the book the authors method is to state a precept and then devise an exercise to explore it. The result is a book with a practical exercise on almost every page which is exactly what student actors crave.
