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Auditions remain a constant requirement in an actors life, whether beginner or seasoned professional, and the attendant nerves and pressure to succeed in an intensely competitive industry is something that all actors need to learn to negotiate. This guide is aimed at those wishing to undertake in-depth training to develop the physical, vocal, imaginative and emotional skills necessary for a varied career in stage or screen. Offering practical advice, it takes readers through the audition process to the moment of acceptance at a drama school. The second section looks at first steps into the profession and how to prepare confidently for auditions and meetings, whether live or by self-tape, so that actors can meet the professional environment with confident ownership of their skills. Topics covered include: choosing your school; selecting audition material and preparing it; an analysis of a contemporary and a classical speech; the audition cycle and self-taping for video auditions. It also features practical and honest insights from casting directors, industry professionals and recent graduates, as well as up-to-date guidance for online auditions.

Ritas Petticoat Loose is a compelling work of fiction that delves into the complexities of gender roles and societal expectations in the 19th century. The novel is written in a vivid and descriptive style, capturing the essence of the era with meticulous attention to detail. Through the narrative, Rita skillfully weaves together themes of femininity, rebellion, and empowerment, creating a thought-provoking and engaging read for lovers of historical fiction. The rich historical context of the novel provides readers with a deep insight into the struggles and triumphs of women during a time of rigid social norms and constraints. With beautifully crafted prose and dynamic characters, Petticoat Loose is a literary gem that illuminates the enduring spirit of resistance and resilience in the face of adversity. Ritas intimate knowledge of the historical period shines through in her writing, adding depth and authenticity to the story. Petticoat Loose is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the intricacies of gender dynamics and societal norms in a bygone era.

This accessible, systematic guide will teach you how to memorise your lines quickly and effectively, and let go of the fear of forgetting them helping you build confidence and focus, and reducing anxiety and stress around auditions, rehearsal and performance.Inside, youll find dozens of tips, tricks and techniques such as Memory Palaces, Mental Maps, Creative Memorisation, Visual Cues and many more, along with exercises and examples to illustrate how they work in practice. Discover how to harness these tools to strengthen your memory, and develop a personalised line-learning strategy that works for you and your acting process one that is easier, faster and more enjoyable.The Compact Guides are pocket-sized introductions for actors and theatremakers, each tackling a key topic in a clear and comprehensive way. Written by industry professionals with extensive hands-on experience of their subject, they provide you with maximum information in minimum time.

Whether youre applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, its likely youll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. Its vital to come up with something fresh thats suited both to you in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer and to the specific purposes of the audition.In this book, youll find forty fantastic speeches featuring male roles, all written and premiered since the year 2014, by some of todays most exciting dramatic voices from the UK and USA.Playwrights include Annie Baker, Andrew Bovell, Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, Mark Gatiss, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Anna Jordan, Arinze Kene, Rona Munro and Evan Placey. The plays featured were premiered at leading venues including the National, the Royal Court, the Bush and Hampstead in London, prestigious theatres in Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester, and by renowned companies including Frantic Assembly and Paines Plough.Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of essential things you need to know about the character, and then five inspiring ideas to help you perform the monologue.This book also features a step-by-step guide to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself.Easy-to-use The guidance is perhaps the most thorough I have seen in a monologue bookTeaching Drama on Trilby Jamess first volume of Contemporary MonologuesPlease note that some of the speeches in this volume contain strong language and themes which some readers may find inappropriate.

Three English art students in Paris (Taffy, Laird, and William Bagot alias Little Billee) meet musicians Svengali and Gecko and the artists model and laundress Trilby OFerrall.Trilby is cheerful, kindhearted, bohemian, and completely tone-deaf. Yet despite being off-key, her singing voice nonetheless has an impressive quality. The Englishmen and Trilby become friends. Svengali tries to persuade Trilby to let him train her voice, but she finds him repulsive and even frightening. She and Little Billee fall in love, but his scandalized relatives get her to promise to leave him. She leaves Paris with her little brother, who later dies of scarlet fever. Trilby then falls under Svengalis influence. He hypnotises her and transforms her into a diva, La Svengali. Under his spell, Trilby becomes a talented singer, performing always in an amnesiac trance. Five years later, Little Billee is a famous painter. He, Laird and Taffy recognise Trilby as she performs at a concert. Trilby sings beautifully but does not appear to be in good health. What will happen to Trilby now? Will she and Svengali have a happy ending? Read on!

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skillsIf youre auditioning for a musical or needing to choose a song to perform for an exam, showcase or drama-school application its vital you find a song that shows off your voice and reveals your full potential as both a singer and an actor.In this invaluable book, youll find comprehensive introductions to fifty of the best songs from musical theatre, for tenor/high baritone and baritone/bass voices, and in a variety of periods, styles, genres and tempos. Each song comes with detailed textual, vocal and musical analysis, and a practical performance guide to ensure you perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.Drawing on his experience as a performer, musical director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Paul Harvard gives his top tips for performing each song, note by note, moment by moment. He also recommends soundtrack recordings to inspire you, and tells you where to find the correct sheet music for your chosen song (please note: the book does not contain the sheet music itself).The selection includes songs from acclaimed contemporary musicals such as Children of Eden and Pippin by Stephen Schwartz, Parade and The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown, as well as Martin Guerre, The Wild Party, Taboo and The Lion King alongside many much-loved classics like Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, Kiss Me, Kate, and six of Sondheims masterpieces.Also included is an extensive introduction to the process of choosing your song, preparing your performance and approaching the audition itself, along with many vocal and acting exercises to improve your technique and boost your confidence.For anyone wishing to do justice to a musical-theatre role, and definitely for those wishing to work in this genre, this guide is a mustTeaching Drama Magazine on Paul Harvards bestselling book Acting Through Song

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skillsIf youre auditioning for a musical or needing to choose a song to perform for an exam, showcase or drama-school application its vital you find a song that shows off your voice and reveals your full potential as both a singer and an actor.In this invaluable book, youll find comprehensive introductions to fifty of the best songs from musical theatre, for soprano, mezzosoprano and alto voices, and in a variety of periods, styles, genres and tempos. Each song comes with detailed textual, vocal and musical analysis, and a practical performance guide to ensure you perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.Drawing on his experience as a performer, musical director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Paul Harvard gives his top tips for performing each song, note by note, moment by moment. He also recommends soundtrack recordings to inspire you, and tells you where to find the correct sheet music for your chosen song (please note: the book does not contain the sheet music itself).The selection includes songs from acclaimed contemporary musicals such as In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown, as well as Next to Normal, Miss Saigon, The Color Purple, Sister Act and Ragtime alongside much-loved classics like The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Anything Goes, and five of Sondheims masterpieces.Also included is an extensive introduction to the process of choosing your song, preparing your performance and approaching the audition itself, along with many vocal and acting exercises to improve your technique and boost your confidence.For anyone wishing to do justice to a musical-theatre role, and definitely for those wishing to work in this genre, this guide is a mustTeaching Drama Magazine on Paul Harvards bestselling book Acting Through Song

Clara Morriss Stage Confidences is a captivating memoir that offers readers a behind-the-scenes look into the theatrical world of the late 19th century. Morris writes in a candid and engaging style, recounting her experiences as a leading actress and shedding light on the challenges and triumphs of life on the stage. This book provides valuable insights into the art of acting and the intricacies of the theatrical profession during this time period, making it a must-read for theater enthusiasts and scholars alike. Morriss literary style is both evocative and informative, drawing readers into her world with vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes. Stage Confidences is a valuable literary work that not only entertains but also educates, offering a unique perspective on the theatrical culture of the Victorian era. Clara Morriss firsthand account of her life as a stage actress is a compelling read that is sure to fascinate readers interested in the history of theater and the performing arts.

An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare.Drawing on a lifetimes experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors and drama students on a wide variety of scenes, characters, speeches and individual lines from almost every one of the plays.The three core sections of Performing Shakespeare take us through the whole process of Preparation, Rehearsal and Performance, preceded by discussions of the Elizabethan actor and Shakespeares language.Also included are revealing interviews with other notable Shakespearean actors including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Harriet Walter, Simon Russell Beale and Juliet Stevenson.An invaluable guide to those who act and to all those who wish to gain deeper insights into the performance of Shakespeares playsStanley Wells from his Foreword

An invaluable guide to the difficult arts of devising plays and directing texts, by one of the UKs leading theatre directors.Throughout a lifetime of experience as an actor for Mike Leigh, founder of Hull Truck, Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, and subsequently as a freelance director Mike Bradwell has forged a reputation as a theatrical innovator and risk-taker.This book begins by exploring the process of devising a play by working intensively through character and improvisation with a group of actors. Using A Bed of Roses as an example, a play that he himself devised, Bradwell shows how the actors set about inventing their characters, whether within a pre-determined framework or with no strictures whatsoever. He explores how actors can then grow their character, both through solo work and through interaction with the other characters. He also examines the role of the director in moulding and shaping the individual scenes, the overall action of the play, and the development of the characters within it. The second half of the book describes in detail how the nuanced work involved in devising characters from scratch can be applied to a pre-existing text. Bradwell explains the techniques by which he encourages the actor to take possession of his or her character by investigating or inventing their whole history up to the moment the action begins. Taking as his template Jack Thornes play When You Cure Me, which Bradwell directed at the Bush, he demonstrates the meticulous work on the text that is needed to keep the characters alive and truthful in every moment of the action. All together, Inventing the Truth offers practitioners a unique account of the techniques involved in devising or directing plays to the highest standard. Mike Bradwells previous book The Reluctant Escapologist won the Theatre Book Prize in 2011.There is a special sense of care about a Mike Bradwell production, in dramas that penetrate deeply into the secret corners of the human heartDaily Telegraph Also included in the book, to aid the readers understanding of the process, are the full texts of both A Bed of Roses (Hilariously funny, extremely moving and physically frightening... a small masterpieceTime Out) and Jack Thornes When You Cure Me (Painstakingly honest... acutely observant of the petty rivalries and jealousies that sickness provokes Guardian).

John Abbott, author of The Improvisation Book, explains how theatre directors at every level can use improvisation in the rehearsal room. Foreword by Mark Rylance.Improvisation can be used as part of the creative process of rehearsing a play. It can be a fabulous tool for exploration and discovery. It can strengthen the actors commitment to their character. And it can create an environment of confidence and spontaneity.Packed with useful exercises and improvisation scenarios, and examples from a wide variety of plays, Improvisation in Rehearsal reveals how improvisation enriches and enlivens the creation of characters, back-stories, relationships, shared histories and emotional lives. The book also demonstrates how improvisation can be used as a powerful tool in the foundation of a strong company, and when searching for the hidden depths and dynamics in a scene.Building on his own experience as an actor, director and teacher, Abbott writes with clarity and an infectious enthusiasm which will motivate directors to try the techniques for themselves. As Mark Rylance says in his Foreword, this book will inspire and delight its readers.

An essential handbook for anyone who wants to act on television and film by a leading teacher of screen acting.For any aspiring screen actor, the challenge is to combine all the components of your craft with an ability to handle the technical demands of acting for the camera within the often bewildering environment of a film set.Michael Bray takes you step by step through all the challenges youll face, demystifying the processes youll encounter, and helping you develop the necessary skills, including: How to approach the script and prepare your character How to maintain your concentration and learn to relax on set How to deliver your lines and improve your vocal range How to master continuity, eye lines, and hitting your marks How to tackle auditions to ensure your best chance of getting the job Full of invaluable advice, extracts from screenplays, numerous illustrations and practical exercises which can be undertaken on your own, using the camera on your phone this book is an accessible and authoritative guide to developing a successful career as a screen actor.

Andy Nymans first book, The Golden Rules of Acting, has become a bestseller in the acting world. Now he returns to bring you more priceless nuggets gleaned from more than thirty years in the acting business.This book will help you to... Learn to love auditions and self-tapes (yes, really!) Look after your mental health Deal with success and failure Burst a few bubbles that need bursting Written with the same candid wit as his first book, this is every actors new best friend in handy paperback form. With great humour, wisdom and panache, Andy Nyman presents tasty advice for any actor. He knows that the more rules and craft under your belt, the more daring and original you will be as an artist Glenn CloseAs with the first volume, this book gets to the heart of what being a working actor is about. No faff, no mystery, just practicalities that are always worth being reminded of Martin FreemanOne man shouldnt be so wise and entertaining, but Andy Nyman somehow is. His latest Golden Rules are exactly that and wild fun, to boot. I recommend this book not just to actors, but to anyone who has ever seen an actor act. Nymans insights apply to us allJ.J. Abrams

The vital building blocks of movement training a key sourcebook for actors, directors, students and teachers.In precise detail, Darley sets out the exercises and techniques she developed with her own drama-school students. She deals with the vital building blocks of movement training: awareness, relaxation, tensionparticularly Lecoqs Seven Statesand suspension, before progressing to areas in which she was a pioneer: animal work, contact work, visual spacing, and the relationship between voice and movement.Christian was much more than a teacher, she was an indomitable and extraordinary spirit Anna Maxwell Martin

Forty fantastic female speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today. Whether youre applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, its likely youll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. Its vital to come up with something fresh thats suited both to you in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer and to the specific purposes of the audition. In this invaluable collection youll find forty speeches by leading contemporary playwrights including Andrew Bovell, Nadia Fall, Vivienne Franzmann, James Fritz, Stacey Gregg, Arinze Kene, Cordelia Lynn, Lynn Nottage, Chinonyerem Odimba, Evan Placey, Jessica Swale and Tom Wells, from plays that were premiered at many of the UKs most famous and respected venues, including the National Theatre, Shakespeares Globe, Manchester Royal Exchange, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and VAULT Festival. Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of ten things you need to know about the character, and then five ideas to help you perform the monologue. This book also features an introduction to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself.Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition a source of inspiration for teachers and students alikeTeaching Drama Magazine on The Good Audition Guides

Forty fantastic male speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.Whether youre applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, its likely youll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. Its vital to come up with something fresh thats suited both to you in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer and to the specific purposes of the audition.In this invaluable collection youll find forty speeches by leading contemporary playwrights including Annie Baker, Jez Butterworth, Nadia Fall, Ella Hickson, Arinze Kene, Dawn King, Jessica Swale, Jack Thorne, Enda Walsh and Tom Wells, from plays that were premiered at many of the UKs most famous and respected venues, including the National Theatre, Shakespeares Globe, Manchester Royal Exchange, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre, Traverse Theatre, the Young Vic, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of ten things you need to know about the character, and then five ideas to help you perform the monologue.This book also features a step-by-step guide to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself.Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition a source of inspiration for teachers and students alikeTeaching Drama Magazine on The Good Audition Guides

An exciting and invaluable collection of audition speeches, all chosen from plays produced by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, spanning more than sixty years as one of the worlds leading companies for young performers.Featuring seventy-five monologues by acclaimed writers such as Zawe Ashton, Moira Buffini, Carol Ann Duffy, Brian Friel, James Fritz, James Graham, Dennis Kelly, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Gbolahan Obisesan, Evan Placey, Sarah Solemani and Jack Thorne, the book offers rich and diverse roles ranging from teens to adults. Each audition speech also comes with invaluable supporting material compiled by NYT Associate Artist Michael Bryher to help you perform the piece to its maximum effect, including: A detailed description of the play that the speech is originally from Contextual information such as whats just happened in the play, where the monologue takes place, to whom the character is talking, and what their motivations are Things to think about when rehearsing and performing the speech The book also provides extensive advice on choosing a speech, working on it and preparing for auditions, plus tips and first-hand insights into the monologues from current NYT members and alumni whove performed them.An ideal resource for actors auditioning for drama school, the NYT or elsewhere, as well as those preparing for showcases or competitions, National Youth Theatre Monologues offers a wide and diverse range of roles, themes and styles meaning youll be able to find the speech thats just right for you.

A practical, accessible and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre the perfect entry point for anyone looking to use puppets in their productions, to explore what puppets can do, or to develop their puppetry skills.Written by an experienced theatre and puppetry director, Mervyn Millars Puppetry: How to Do It focuses on the performer and the craft of bringing any puppet to life. No puppet-making is required to use this book: starting just with simple objects, it lays out the skills required to unlock a puppets limitless potential for expression and connection with an audience.Inside youll discover fifty practical, easy-to-follow exercises for use in a group or on your own to develop elements of the craft, build confidence and help you improve your puppetry through play and improvisation. Also included are sections on different types of puppet, thinking about how the puppeteer is presented on stage and how to direct and devise puppet performances.Ideal for actors and performers, for directors and designers, and for teachers and students of all ages and levels of experience, this book will demystify the art of puppetry, and help you become more confident and creative with all kinds of puppets and objects on stage.This is a superb guide to puppet manipulation by one of the worlds most experienced puppetry directors and teachers at a time when many actors are seeing puppetry as the twenty-first centurys evocative and powerful new performance medium Basil Jones, Handspring Puppet CompanyThis book captures Mervyns playful and accessible process for working with actors to develop their puppetry skills its like having him in the room Lucy Skilbeck, Director of Actor Training at RADAMervyn Millar has a unique perspective on the meteoric rise of puppetry in British theatre having witnessed it from the inside. He was resident at the Puppet Centre Trust at BAC when Improbable Theatre were exploding theatrical form in 70 Hill Lane and Animo. He was studying with Handspring when they created the exquisite and game-changing giraffe puppet in Tall Horse. He was present from the earliest experiments at the National Theatre Studio in which puppetry and "poor theatre" were combined to create the performance language of War Horse. There is no one better placed to reveal the techniques of puppetry which made these changes and these shows possible. Tom Morris, Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic, and Co-director of War HorseMore and more contemporary actors are adding puppetry to their arsenal of performance techniques. Here is a very timely guide to what is required from the actor to give life to the performed object as developed from Mervyn Millars own deep practical experienceAdrian Kohler, Handspring Puppet CompanyBased on the workshops he developed for training performers for War Horse, Mervyn has written this book to share his craft the exercises are clear and easily reproducible for many different types of participants a wonderful gift to the field of puppetry. I hope that it will be used widely to introduce adventurous spirits to this dynamic art form Cheryl Henson, President of the Jim Henson Foundation, from her Foreword

A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they can be put into practice.Theatre practitioner and academic David Zoob demystifies Brechts theories, and offers an approach to study and performance that can be applied to a wide range of texts and theatre styles.With close analysis of texts by writers including Shakespeare, Chekhov, Miller, Pinter, and of course Brecht himself, the author demonstrates how Brechtian techniques can provide practical pathways to exploring plays across the canon, as well as non-traditional forms of theatre.Also included are dozens of exercises to help turn theory into practice, and explore what Brechts ideas mean for actors and directors, both in training and rehearsal.Whether youre a student, a teacher, an actor or a theatre-maker, this book will change the way you view and work with Brecht.Zoob has engaged with Brechts many and varied principles for a politicised theatre and channelled them into a wide range of novel and innovative exercises that are applicable to a great many dramas and can equally interrogate devised material ExcellentDavid Barnett, Professor of Theatre, University of York, and author of Brecht in Practice

A unique collection of Shakespeares every reflection on the theatre, offering fascinating insights into the man, his work, and the world of the Jacobean stage.Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems.Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including All the worlds a stage, Hamlets encounters with the Players, and Bottoms amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeares contemporaries and rivals.De Somogyis informed commentary takes us through the entire process of a plays theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception.Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the tiring-house and inhales the heady aroma of the Globes first audiences.