This is a book for performers, presenters, and their directors. It is for singers, dancers, teachers, lawyers, and actors in every genre of theatre. Bill Bruehl has set forth a comprehensive method for mastering the internal skills of the performer, as well as a precise method of interpreting text. He also brings Stanislavsky's pioneering theory of inner action to fruition. Thanks to teachers like Sanford Meisner, Sonia Moore, Stella Adler and others who have given inner work its deserved priority, mastery of the flow of inner action - a skill ignored throughout much of the history of theatre...