Marina Caldarone's "Actions: The Actor's Thesaurus" - A Comprehensive Guide to Acting Through Body Language

Lisa: Very easy to use and informative. Can he used to assist with writing and acting

Australia on Sep 23, 2023

Dusti Worley: This is a concise and practical handbook to aid actors in determining the movement and motivation of their characters. It’s a slim volume, narrowly shaped, and fits easily among your bulky items in a backpack or even the front pocket of your hoodie. As a poet, I also find this thesaurus-style handbook useful to explore language.

United States on Sep 01, 2023

Amazon Customer: I purchased this book about 10 years ago when I was in collage for Theater and Performing arts, strudying practical aesthetics. I did not finish the program, but kept the book and stay active in community theater -- And it has really helped me and some cast mates work through some tough characters and stories. I reccomend it to anyone interested in hoaning the craft: It's very useful!

United States on Aug 23, 2023

CB: So well laid out. If I can't think of a word to start with, I can go to a category. I'm terrible at naming verbs, so it really is my acting bible.
Seller shipped it fast and it arrived ahead of predicted delivery time for a script I was working on

Japan on Jun 25, 2023

Michelle L Koops: This book helped me take my acting to the next level by doing beat work and finding the best tactics for my beats. There are so many action verbs in here, it’s an amazing tool for the actors toolbox. This is my second copy as my first one fell apart from taking it everywhere with me. Definitely worth it.

United States on Jun 01, 2023

Chris Macpherson: For the actor who likes to work with actions, this is a book to tuck into your bag you take to class or to rehearsal or to the set and never leave it at home. It provides the perfect companion to help you plot actions accurately and with colour and punch. A great way to expand your repertoire and to make more interesting choices.

Australia on Apr 14, 2023

batz: great resource to add to your tool kit for any professional actor.

Canada on Mar 28, 2023

Eddy: Gives you action verbs to use in your work and also explains how to use verbs, the importance of them, and provides examples.

United States on Sep 11, 2022

SwiissjokerSwiissjoker: This book is so dope. I am now able to read script as well as visualize what the actors are doing exactly according to the examples that the book has provided.

This book allows you to take simple script that has no direction and apply any sort of action to a script therefore you no longer have to sit and wonder how are you going to play this out.

This book gives you the ability and the words to play any scene... And most importantly every line in the scene with a different action.

You can have the same scene as 20 different people & no longer have to play the same scene as everyone else because every sentence in your scene can be a different action which also gives you a head up on a competition because simply... no one else is doing this!

United States on Jun 29, 2021

graham garner: I wished I'd found this sooner. And wished kindle and ipads were around when I was at E15 acting school. If you want to colour your voiced sentance, this book helps you with the action you need with each sentence. It's worth noting, if you go to the top of kindle on the left you will find the search icon, put your possible word in there for it to list all index of the word it's in. I found this way I could find the best action for the sentence. If the creators could find a way to link to a dictionary then hallelujah then it would be 5 stars

United Kingdom on Nov 04, 2019