An Attitude for Acting: How to Survive (And Thrive) As an Actor - Couverture souple

Tidmarsh, Andrew; Swart, Tara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848421125 ISBN 13 : 9781848421127

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 2011

Synopsis

Feeling despondent about the acting profession? Been out of work for longer than you care to remember? Starting to resent the injustices of the job and the success of other actors? If so, An Attitude for Acting will inspire you to break out of the cycle of despondency and start to view yourself as a creative and autonomous individual who is valuable and employable.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A 'how to' book for actors who want to develop a 'can do' attitude to their profession in the face of rejection and intense competition. Feeling despondent about the acting profession? Been out of work for longer than you care to remember? Starting to resent the injustices of the job and the success of other actors? If so, An Attitude for Acting will inspire you to break out of the cycle of despondency and start to view yourself as a creative and autonomous individual who is valuable and employable.

The book focuses on: maintaining a healthy attitude; dealing with negative emotions; keeping productive and motivated; developing self-belief and getting the support you need; turning discouragement into activity and opportunity; coping with nerves; preparing for auditions; being included and not feeling left out; building a value system that includes trust, responsibility, flexibility, creativity, adaptability and courage.

An Attitude for Acting contains a series of intensely hands-on exercises some for practising alone, others for doing with friends or colleagues. These techniques will enable you to free yourself from potential states of inertia and hopelessness, and prevent any feelings of worthlessness becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Instead, you will develop a self-confident, can-do mentality that will help you shape the career you want. Whether you've just completed your training and want to start your career with confidence or you've been acting a while and are having difficulty planning the next stage, this book will help you on your path to surviving and thriving as an actor.

Revue de presse

This is an intelligent, useful and easy to reference book that sets out to help young (and not so young) actors handle the times when the going gets really tough.

What Swart (coach, psychologist and neuroscientist) and Tidmarsh (director and acting tutor) set out to do, is to enable actors to overcome debilitating negativity and to think and act positively. This is as likely to work for middle career actors as for young actors starting out. Useful case studies thread their way through the book, as well as anecdotes of actors attitudes from Tidmarsh's professional life.

When the writers identify attitudes or emotions that should be avoided or cultivated (there are many this is what the book is about) helpful exercises are always attached to help personal development. There's a terrific section on Anxiety showing positive and valuable aspects we can use. This is followed by an equally good section explaining the negative aspects when anxiety turns into stress. There's a particularly good section, too, on NeuroSynthesis encouraging us to explore our strengths and weaknesses in using our brain power, and how to develop it.

Tidmarsh and Swart have crammed this book full of sage advice, well explained. We may even surmise from reading this book that the act of reading it has advantages greater than the information it contains. --Rod Dungate Reviewsgate.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848421125
• ISBN 13: 9781848421127
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 168