The market for specialist and multi-functional sports and leisure facilities to host international, national and regional sports, conferences and leisure events is growing fast. This text presents late 1990s world-wide experience in the design, construction and operation of these structures. It includes contributions from experts in many fields of procurement, planning and design. Also featured are case studies of stadia and arenas from athletics, rugby, football, tennis and many other sports from Europe, North America and the Far East and, of course, the New Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. It...

A major rediscovered work by Stanislavski, this volume is full of new ideas and insights about his working method.

Jean Benedetti's Stanislavski is the clearest and most succinct explanation of Stanislavski's writings and ideas, especially those in the Stanislavski's acting trilogy An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating a Role a staple of every actor's library.

Now available in an attractive new edition, Stanislavski: An Introduction provides the perfect guide through the Master's writing.

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How did acting begin? What is its history, and what have the great thinkers on acting said about the art and craft of performance? In this single-volume survey of the history of acting, Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key texts, many of which are unavailable for the student today. Beginning with the classical conceptions of acting as rhetoric and oratory, as exemplified in the writing of Aristotle, Cicero and others, The Art of the Actor progresses to examine ideas of acting in Shakespeare's time right through to...

Written by a former teacher and author of Stanislavski: An Introduction, this biography has been revised and updated to include new material now becoming available from the Russian archives, including a letter from Stanislavski to Stalin. The book is a set text for drama students.

An Actor's Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavsky's classic exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing life and truth to one's role.

Originally published over half a century ago as Creating a Role, this book became the third in a trilogy - after An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, which are now combined in a newly translated volume called An Actor's Work. In these books, now foundational texts for actors,...