About Acting: (with a Bit of Name Dropping and a Few Golden Rules)This book is on every aspect of acting. Topics include the connection between speech and movement, how to cope with bad dialogue, the subject of concentration and more. |
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acting actors actress aftersurge Alan Bridges anchors attitudes audience BUCKLE camera cast character characterisation classes cliché Clifford Evans comedy concentration course Crown Matrimonial d'you damned dialogue drink early rehearsals Edith Evans emotion everyday example exercise face favourite feel films forget fourth wall funny generalised give going to show Greer happen HEADINGLEY homework Hugh Miller idea interrupt John Fernald later rehearsals laugh laugh-line Laurence Olivier learn the lines Lionel Harris look means memory Michael Frayn microphone mind move never nice night Noël Coward pause Penelope Keith performance person Pretend Professional Foul quickly radio rehearsal room relaxed remember scene script smoke someone speak speech speed stage started stop stylised surprise telephone television director television play tell theatre there's things thought Tom Stoppard turn voice walk Wendy Hiller Whhht words in brackets