Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Reference

A fascinating insight into the lives, loves, and motivations of well known British stage and film actors. All interviews are conducted by Patrick O'Kane, an actor himself. Interviewees include Claire Price, Tim Crouch, Olwen Fouere, Paterson Joseph, Jim Norton, Mojisola Adebayo, Ruairi Conaghan, Gerrard McArthur, and many more.

Is acting your dream, but you don't know how to get started?
Do you want to get an agent, but you don't know how?
Would you like to get more auditions than you are currently getting?
Do you want to make a resume, but you are not sure what to put on it?
Have you ever been scammed by some agency that lied to you and took your money?

If any of those things are true for you, this is the book you need to read and DO.
"Learn why most aspiring actors never make it and how to keep from ending up like them Learn why many actors think they know what they want out of their...

Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned accolades and Academy Awards.

Entertaining, informative, and sometimes startling, Tales from the Script features exclusive interviews with film's top wordsmiths, including John Carpenter (Halloween), Nora Ephron (Julie &...

This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal s work is the first to look beyond Boal and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context.

A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship...

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard.

This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre...