About Acting - formerly titled The Complete About Acting - hasbecome indispensable for students and professional actors alike becauseit is simple, clear and inspiring about the difficult art and craft ofperforming on stage, film, television and radio.
Peter Barkworth guides the reader through all aspects of acting -from auditions and preparing for a part to rehearsals and survivinglong runs with freshness. He has also included a selection ofinterviews with leading performers and a director about how to work ona part: Judi Dench, Alec McCowen, Edward Petherbridge, Anna...

This marvellous selections of over 200 pieces by writers as diverse and entertaining as Charles Dickens, John Betjeman, Noel Coward, Joyce Grenfell, Ogden Nash and Oscar Wilde are poems and prose writings which work best when read aloud. Peter Barkworth, like many other well-known performers, has always been called upon to give charity and concert readings throughout his long and illustrious career as an actor. Now he has compiled a book of his favourite selections to be read and used by anyone who has to read in front of an audience at Christmas and other holidays; benefits, charity...