A Challenge for the Actor

Hagen, Uta

ISBN 10: 0684190400 / ISBN 13: 9780684190402

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, et al, New York, et al, 1991

About this Item

Cloth-backed paper over boards; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. xxii, 309. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP. Looks like a faint coffee stain, occupying the front board and fore-edge of text block, nowhere infringing into the margins or text itself; some pink highlighting. In near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing on rear panel. First Edition, First Printing, with complete number line. Seller Inventory # JC8951

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Challenge for the Actor

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, et al, New York, et al

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The actress and teacher guides actors in developing their art, covering such aspects as voice techniques, timing, rhythm, and including exercises to correct problems.

About the Author:

Uta Hagen (1919-2004) was a German American actress and theatre practitioner who made her Broadway debut in 1938. She starred in over twenty Broadway productions, including Othello, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The recipient of the National Medal of Honor for the Arts in 2003 and winner of three Tony Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, Hagen taught for over forty years at the HB Studio in New York and was one of the most renowned and respected acting teachers of the 20th century.