Impediments to performance come in many guises and forms, but they all spring from the same source: tension. In Physical Expression on Stage and Screen Bill Connington, a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, shows the reader how the technique will allow them to do everything more easily and more naturally: from breathing more freely, and speaking more fluidly to moving more lightly and gracefully, releasing the best possible performance from your body and mind. Physical Expression on Stage and Screen provides a practical and systematic way of working on themselves -- their minds, their bodies, and their emotions. It helps them become more flexible, coordinated, free, and versatile performers. Using the three-step Stanislavskian approach, it enables them to take on any kind of character or acting challenge, and aids them in the growth of their professional process. Physical Expression on Stage and Screen will help professional actors and acting students * Become aware of their physical tensions * Become aware of their postural and movement habits * Learn to move more freely and gracefully * Catch themselves in the act of "tensing up" * Sense when they are holding their breath or breathing shallowly * Recognize when their own physicality is blocking their creative impulses * Develop ways of working on themselves psycho-physically in daily life * Remain calm while performing under difficult circumstances * Observe themselves objectively and non-judgmentally * Remain free in their bodies while projecting their voices * Change their "natural rhythms" when playing a character different from themselves * Play a historical character who has an unfamiliar physicality * Experience more clearly the mind/body/emotion connection * Learn to deal with stage fright and panic attacks Physical Expression on Stage and Screen is a straightforward, easy-to-read, and easy-to-understand handbook for the student actor and the working actor that applies the Alexander Technique to the complex physical work of acting for stage and screen.