Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book, making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The original chapters and the bibliography are brought right up to date, along with the addition of seven more practitioners-and forty more photographs-to create a stunningly comprehensive study.

The practitioners included are: Stella Adler, Eugenio Barba, Augusto Boal, Anne Bogart, Bertolt Brecht,...