What Actors Do
Advice to the Players in Seven Paradoxes and a Manifesto
$37.32
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2023
Summary
‘Only what is open and searching is active and alive. You, the actor, must learn to find security in insecurity, certainty in uncertainty, to trust that this will lead to discovery and growth.’
In What Actors Do, revered theatre director Mike Alfreds explores the wellspring of the actor’s craft, tracing a pathway to creative freedom through the thickets of competing methodologies and confusing paradoxes that you will face throughout your training and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839041419 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839041412 |
| Author: | Mike Alfreds |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
‘A window on the actor’s art… endlessly quotable… an interrogation and a call-to-arms from a director whose passion for the theatre has clearly never dimmed’
* StageTalk Magazine *‘Well written… valuable advice on how to support and equip yourself in your chosen career’
* Word Matters (Journal of The Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama) *About The Author
Mike Alfreds
Mike Alfreds has been directing plays for more than fifty years. In the 1970s he founded Shared Experience, and has since worked for the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and also extensively abroad. He is hugely respected within the profession. He is the author of Different Every Night (Nick Hern Books, 2007), Then What Happens? (Nick Hern Books, 2013) and What Actors Do (Nick Hern Books, 2023).
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