First steps in acting

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The forms and techniques of acting. The actor's objectives

The actor as image-maker

The actor as instrumentalist : pantomime

The actor as instrumentalist : speech

Preparing the part

Playing the part

A question of style

Vocation or avocation

Twenty-five dramatic scenes: Scenes for two men. Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua P. Logan

Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller

Finian's rainbow / E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy

Darkness at noon / Sidney Kingsley

The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde

Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare

Scenes for two women. The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams

The old maid / Zoë Akins

Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill

Joint owners in Spain / Alice Brown

The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde

Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare

Scenes for one man, one woman. The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams

The little foxes / Lillian Hellman

Suppressed desires / Susan Glaspell

Tovarich / Jacques Deval

R.U.R. / Karel Capek

Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill

The devil's disciple / Bernard Shaw

The diary of Anne Frank / Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

The chairs / Eugène Ionesco

The way of the world / William Congreve

Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare

Scenes for more than two persons. Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge

The tempest / William Shakespeare

Exercises for proficiency. Suggested training aids

Seven pantomimes. Underground ; The unemployed man ; The servant ; The blind thief ; The bride ; Groom in the kitchen ; Carrie

Reading selections. Verses ; Eight soliloquies from Shakespeare