Advice from the Players (26 Actors on Acting)
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Essential tips and advice from stars of stage and screen.
Actors know the best source of advice on the profession is other actors. Nothing compares with the wisdom and practical know-how acquired through years of working in the business.
Advice from the Players features a host of tips and guidance on every aspect of the actor's craft, direct from some of the best-known stars of stage and screen, including Julie Walters, Lenny Henry, Harriet Walter, Simon Callow, Mark Gatiss, David Harewood, Jo Brand, Simon Russell Beale, Lesley Manville, Zawe Ashton and Mathew Horne, amongst many others.
Drawing directly on their own personal experience, they offer essential advice on topics including:
- Applying to drama school
- Getting an agent
- Auditions
- The dos and don'ts of rehearsal
- Acting for camera
- Acting comedy
- Coping with stage fright
- Surviving the tough times
- Staying inspired, and much more...
Candid, passionate, sometimes contradictory, often very funny - Advice from the Players is a book to turn to whenever you're in need of guidance or inspiration, whether you're a working actor, at drama school, or involved in amateur theatre. It is also an invaluable introduction for those considering a career in the performing arts, and a fascinating read for anyone who wants to know what it's really like to be a working actor.
Read more from Laura Barnett
The Versions of Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greatest Hits Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Advice from the Players (26 Actors on Acting) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Advice from the Players (26 Actors on Acting)
Related ebooks
An Actor Succeeds: Tips, Secrets & Advice on Auditioning, Connection, Coping & Thriving In & Out of Hollywood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsActing Is a Job: Real Life Lessons about the Acting Business Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Method?: The Different Ways an Actor Can Train Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Behind the Lines: What it Really Takes to Make It as an Actor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings7 Deadly Sins - The Actor Overcomes: Business of Acting Insight By the Founder of the Actors’ Network Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Generous Actor: Intuitive acting for the camera Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Succeed in Hollywood without really Acting: Practical inspirational insider secrets to achieving your potential Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Actor's Hustle: A Step by Step Guide to Getting Your Foot in the Door in TV and Film and How to Get Paid from Your Craft Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsActing Is Everything: An Actor's Guidebook For A Successful Career Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Actor's Alchemy: Finding the Gold in the Script Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Lyndon Technique: The 15 Guideline Map to Booking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5True Acting Tips: A Path to Aliveness, Freedom, Passion and Vitality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Field Guide to Actor Training Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Acting That Matters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTeaching the Actor Craft Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Actor's Life for Me Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAct ALIVE: The Essential Guide to Igniting and Sustaining Your Working Actor Career Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Most Practical Damn Little Acting and Directing Book: Notes from the Rehearsal Hall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsActing Class: Take a Seat Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Actorpreneur Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Actor's Encyclopedia of Casting Directors: Conversations with Over 100 Casting Directors on How to Get the Job Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAudition for Your Career, Not the Job: Mastering the On-camera Audition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Master Key to Acting Freedom: Getting Ready for the Theatre of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeven Pillars Acting: A Comprehensive Technique for the Modern Actor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Life in Acting: The Actor's Guide to Creative and Career Longevity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Acting: How Acting and Spirituality Fuse to Propel You Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsActing on the Script Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDirector Actor Coach: Solutions for Director/Actor Challenges Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of Auditioning: Techniques for Television Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Performing Arts For You
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Macbeth (new classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Importance of Being Earnest: A Play Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sisters Brothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Strange Loop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unsheltered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Midsummer Night's Dream, with line numbers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hamlet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romeo and Juliet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tempest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dolls House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Advice from the Players (26 Actors on Acting)
0 ratings0 reviews