Fine acting demands a rare combination of talents: intelligence, imagination, psychological freedom, physical dexterity, vocal strength and flexibility, emotional depth, and an ability to learn from mistakes, criticism, and observation. Acting One is twenty-four stimulating, class-tested lessons that help you teach students how to train their acting "instrument" - primarily voice and body - into more workable, more exciting, apparatus. Robert Cohen's basic, easy-to-follow approach provides a logical sequence of exercises that you can use at the beginning level, regardless of your teaching style. His engaging, lively writing is evocative rather than prescriptive; a complete absence of jargon makes this text ideal for the major and nonmajor alike. Acting One gives beginning acting students a set of experiences, a series of steps for exploring, feeling, trying, and doing. Place your order today for this stimulating, fun-to-use text for your beginning acting class. -- from dust jacket.