Acting

Decoding the Craft: An Actor’s Handbook

What is ‘talent’? How do I know if my acting is ‘moment-to-moment’? Do you know your ‘secondary action’ and employ your ‘sense memory’?

The idioms of acting can both delight and frustrate. While enthusiastic theatregoers and aspiring actors may be attracted to studio slang, theorists and practitioners of the craft will argue fiercely over the derivation, meaning and use of professional language terms, while academics d…