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The life of an actor has never been easy, but at the beginning of the twenty-first century it is difficult in new ways. Students have to struggle to fund their training, the absence of a repertory system limits their opportunities on graduating, new attitudes of agents and television producers can be unhelpful, and the competition never flags. Success, whether it comes suddenly or after years of hard work, brings a whole new range of problems to be solved. And yet its appeal is as strong as ever. Books about this life written from the front line are rare, especially those focusing on what faces newcomers. After over forty years' work, Michael Pennington has an overview, and a wish to help; he has spent enough time with young actors to see the challenges that face them and to notice how well or otherwise they are handling their professional lives. The proposed book will concentrate on how to lay the basis for a rewarding career, then how to sustain it and how to maximise your luck; it will also look at the dilemmas that can arise later on. A life in the theatre now necessitates new survival strategies. So as well as timeless chapters such as Dealing with auditions, rehearsals, directors, long runs, etc., there will be unusual sections about such things as handling the new breed of agents; a chapter called Are You Ready For The Bill?, another about the realities facing graduate actors trained for the classics who are forced into soap opera. (There could also be unusually candid chapters such as Professional Jealousy, or about the limitations of success: Other People's Knighthoods). Contents, a list of possible chapters: Training. Dealing with auditions. Agents - getting and keeping them. Rehearsals and directors - dealing well with them. Long runs in the theatre - how to survive them in style. Television (The new treadmill). Being out of work. The limitations of success. Professional jealousy ('Other People's Knighthoods'). Social ('To network or not'). Taking your clothes off (How you won't escape it). This is decidedly a book of advice and not a memoir, but part of its interest will surely be in what Michael Pennington considers are his own mistakes and successes in all these areas, and how the rules of engagement have changed in hismemory. This should make the book witty and companionable rather than didactic, without changing its essentially advisory nature. Readership - Students, theatre professionals, audiences here and abroad. Competition - Simon Callow's Being an Actor (1984) is part autobiography, part manifesto and part an account of the actor's life from the moment of securing the job to completing it. But it is not mainly concerned to advise across the whole spectrum of a career; and, a generation later, some of its premises about the industry no longer apply - fewer choices are available in the theatre, and there is more sense of the cattle-market in television and film. Peter Barkworth's About Acting is essentially a masterclass in acting technique, rather than a discussion of industrial realities.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku The arts Theatre studies Acting techniques

• Pełny tytuł: Let Me Play the Lion Too
• Autor: Michael Pennington
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 432
• EAN: 9780571231065
• ISBN: 0571231063
• ID: 04623625
• Wydawca: Faber & Faber
• Waga: 568 g
• Wymiary: 235 × 154 × 32 mm
• Data wydania: 15. January 2015

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