The Actor's Survival Handbook

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-87830-174-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Worried about short rehearsal time? Think that fluffing your lines will be the end of your career? Are you afraid you'll be typecast? Is there such a thing as acting too much? How should a stage actor adjust performance for a camera? And how should an actor behave backstage?The Actor's Survival Handbook gives you answers to all these questions and many more. Written with verve and humor, this utterly essential tool speaks to every actor's deepest concerns. Drawing upon their years of experience on stage, backstage, and with the camera, Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne offer forthright advice on topics from breathing to props, commitment to learning lines, audience response to simply landing the job in the first place. The book is rich with examples - both technical and inspirational. And because a director and an actor won't always agree, the two writers sometimes even offer alternative responses to a dilemma, giving the reader both an actor's take and a director's take on a particular point.Like Patrick Tucker's Secrets of Screen Acting, this new book is written with wit and passion, conveying the authors' powerful conviction that success is within every actor's grasp.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tucker, Patrick

Ozanne, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Schauspieltechnik, Theaterpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents:

Introduction
How to use this book
Family Trees

Acting: what is it?
Agents
Amateur dramatics
Anecdotes and jokes
Attitude
Audience
Auditions

Battle of the sexes
Be yourself (plus!)
Believability
Blowing your nose
Breaking up (corpsing)
Business (biz)

Casting directors
Comedy and farce
Commercial casting sessions
Commitment
Conservatories and drama schools
Consistency
Costumes, wigs and shoes
Crew

Designers
Dialects and accents
Directors
Discussions
Don't ask for permission
Don't give up
Drugs

Editing and acting
Example: Al and Bob's first meeting
Example: Anna Christie and her dad
Example: Broadway versus Hollywood
Example: Brother and sister act
Example: Kate and corpsing
Example: Lady Bracknell's handbag
Example: Mr. and Mrs. Noah fight
Example: Mr. Horner is exactly that
Example: Noel Coward on the phone
Example: Olivia's ends
Example: Plunging in the deep end
Example: Princely business
Example: Signs of the times
Example: The silence of the lads
Example: Valuable verbals
Example: You, thee - and the gold
Eye-to-eye contact

Fellow actors
Film versus television
Forgetting lines
Further training

Gear changes
Getting work
Good and bad taste

Hierarchy
Homework

Illness
Impr ovisation
Instinct versus intellect
Interviews
It's not what it used to be

Jobs requiring acting skills
Journey

Know your image

Laughter
Learning lines
Less is more?
Let the words do the work

Medieval acting
Melodrama acting
Method acting
Mistakes
Modern contemporary acting
Money is probably the answer
Multicamera versus single camera

Never say no
No training
Notes

Open auditions
Opposites
Outside-in versus inside-out
Over the top

Pauses
Performing
Photographs
Problem s
Producers
Projection
Properties (props)
Pulling focus
Punctuality

Qualifications

Radio acting
Readings
Rehearsals (long, short, or none)
Rehearsing
Rejection
Restoration acting
Resumes
Role play

Screen acting
Screen cheating
Screen reactions
Screen vocal levels
Sex and violence
Shakespeare acting
Shakespeare: First Folio
Shakespeare: Prose or poetry
Shakespeare: Simple or complicated
Shakespeare: Verse
Shakespeare: What you call people
Shakespeare: Word play
Shooting and acting
Stars
Starting off
Step-by-step
Style

Teaching acting
Technical and dress rehearsals
Technique
Ten second rule
Text
The Team
Thinking
Training
Truth
Typecasting

University courses

Versatility
Voice

Whatever works

You (your other life)

Biographies

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Tucker has staged plays and musicals, directed for television, and taught acting workshops throughout the world. A member of the board of Shakespeare's Globe (which rebuilt the Globe Theatre on London's Southbank), he is the author of Secrets of Screen Acting and Secrets of Acting Shakespeare. Christine Ozanne trained at RADA, acted in the original production of Tom Stoppard's Dirty Linen, and has since worked as an actress, teacher, and prompter. Tucker and Ozanne are cofounders of the Original Shakespeare Company. They live in London.