Yoshi Oida is a Japanese actor and director whose work in the West has mainly been for Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris. He blends the oriental acting tradition of supreme control with the Western performer's need to characterize and expose depths of emotion. This book presents his methods.

A guide to stage movement provides exercises that help actors rid themselves of unwanted physical habits and discover new ways to communicate effectively through the body. (view table of contents)

A collection of theatrical short stories drawn from work by such writers as Woody Allen, Beryl Bainbridge, H.E. Bates, Agatha Christie, Noel Coward, Charles Dickens, Ian McEwan, John Mortimer, Nadine Gordimer, Oliver Goldsmith, Yukio Mishima, Simon Brett, Saki, James Thurber and Dorothy Parker.