Playing For Real: Actors on Playing Real People

This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. How do you capture Hitler, Mugabe, or a serial killer? How do you portray living monarchs or political leaders? Is it possible to embody a genius like Mozart, Woolf or Darwin? What are the pressures of performing an icon like Marlene Dietrich? Bringing together original conversations with award-winning actors, the line-up includes Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins, David Morrissey, Henry Goodman, and Sir Ian McKellen.

Humor & Entertainment

Cantrell, Tom

Luckhurst, Mary

Television

Red Globe Press

Acting in Documentary Theatre

Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre. Through a series of high profile case studies, Cantrell uses acting theory to examine the actors' complex processes, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of stage performance.

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Acting in British Television

This fascinating text offers the first in-depth exploration of acting processes in British television. Focused around sixteen new interviews with celebrated British actors, including Rebecca Front, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ken Stott, Penelope Wilton and John Hannah, this rich resource delves behind the scenes of a range of British television programmes in order to find out how actors build their characters for television, how they work on set and location, and how they create their critically acclaimed portrayals. The book looks at actors’ work across four diverse but popular genres: soap opera; police and medical drama; comedy; and period drama.  Its insightful discussion of hit programmes and its critical and contextual post-interview analysis, makes the text an essential read for students across Television and Film Studies, Theatre, Performance and Acting, and Cultural and Media Studies, as well as academics and anyone interested in acting and British television. 

Hogg, Christopher

Movies

The Mysteries of Roy Huggins and the Deportation of Harry Carlisle provided a harrowing and exquisitely researched examination of a television writer's life. Tom Cantrell dissects the Hollywood underbelly, what transpires within our powerful entertainment industry and in that, defines what is essentially American.

The Mysteries of Roy Huggins and the Deportation of Harry Carlisle

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hekate Publishing

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