An Actor Performs Author:Mel Shapiro Integrating text analysis and techniques for using actor's experience and imagination to approach performance gives this first-edition text unique relevance. Equally useful to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of acting, it addresses problems common to all actors: understanding the text, finding it a viable interpretation, dealing ... more »with the language of the play, and using one's body and mind and imagination to create a fully realized performance.« less