Actor's Survival Handbook

Worried about short rehearsal time? Think that fluffing your lines will be the end of your career? Are you afraid you'll be typecast? Is there such a thing as acting too much? How should a stage actor adjust performance for a camera? And how should an actor behave backstage? The Actor's Survival Handbook gives you answers to all these questions and many more. Written with verve and humor, this utterly essential tool speaks to every actor's deepest concerns. Drawing upon their years of experience on stage, backstage, and with the camera, Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne offer forthright advice on topics from breathing to props, commitment to learning lines, audience response to simply landing the job in the first place. The book is rich with examples - both technical and inspirational. And because a director and an actor won't always agree, the two writers sometimes even offer alternative responses to a dilemma, giving the reader both an actor's take and a director's take on a particular point. Like Patrick Tucker's Secrets of Screen Acting, this new book is written with wit and passion, conveying the authors' powerful conviction that success is within every actor's grasp.

The Actor's Survival Handbook

Tucker, Patrick

Ozanne, Christine

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

"Christine Ozanne? I know your face...but, um, remind me, what have I seen you in?" For ‘unknown’ jobbing actors, this is the most frequently asked question, and in this amusing antidote to celebrity...the perils and pleasures of being an ‘unknown’ are explored. Ozanne obeys her father’s instructions to "go and collect some memories", as she sets off for RADA, and from her film debut in 1958 in Carry on Nurse, to the 2016 sitcom Upstart Crow, she describes many hilarious situations working with the great and the good during the past 58 years in film, theatre, radio and television. Revealing some acting clues in Shakespeare’s text, Ozanne reports on the three productions at The Globe, presented by The Original Shakespeare Company, which she co-founded with her partner, Patrick Tucker. Working abroad led them to some exotic places, and the often precarious adventures are chronicled in this memoir. This thoroughly entertaining read is also a homage to every individual who has beavered away in the business without fame or fortune: The Unknown Actor.

The Tome of the Unknown Actor

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Avocado Books

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