Being an Actor - Softcover

Callow, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140239251 ISBN 13: 9780140239256

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

When it was first published in 1984, this book exposed the pressures, rewards and insecurity of an actor's life, and caused a storm of controversy for its forthright views on the shortcomings of contemporary directors. Ten years later, Simon Callow has provided a new and gloomy assessment of the state of British theatre today, with the decline of ensemble playing, a lack of training for young actors, "brochure theatre" where novelty replaces substance, and audiences who applaud the hydraulics of the stage machinery rather than the quality of the actor's performace. It ends with a warning that without attention to the roots of the art of stagecraft, the tree of British theatre will surely die.

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"The best picture of theatre life since MacLiammo?=ir's classic All for Hecuba." -- Ulick O'Connor "The Sunday Independent (London)"

" The most honest book ever written about us all." -- Sir Ian McKellen
" The best picture of theatre life since MacLiammo ir's classic All for Hecuba." -- Ulick O' Connor, "The Sunday Independent" (London)
" Impassioned, intelligent, informative, and quite simply, one of the best theatre books I have read." -- Michael Coveney, "The Financial Times" (London)
" Pugnaciously candid...His book is a unique account of an actor's life in mid-career." -- Michael Billington, "The Guardian" (London)
"The most honest book ever written about us all."

"The best picture of theatre life since MacLiamm???ir's classic All for Hecuba."

"Pugnaciously candid...His book is a unique account of an actor's life in mid-career." -- Michael Billington "The Guardian (London)"

"The best picture of theatre life since MacLiammir's classic All for Hecuba." -- Ulick O'Connor "The Sunday Independent (London)"

"Pugnaciously candid.His book is a unique account of an actor's life in mid-career." -- Michael Billington "The Guardian (London)"

“The most honest book ever written about us all.” —Sir Ian McKellen
“The best picture of theatre life since MacLiammóir’s classic All for Hecuba.” —Ulick O’Connor, "The Sunday Independent" (London)
“Impassioned, intelligent, informative, and quite simply, one of the best theatre books I have read.” —Michael Coveney, "The Financial Times" (London)
“Pugnaciously candid...His book is a unique account of an actor’s life in mid-career.” —Michael Billington, "The Guardian" (London)
"The most honest book ever written about us all."--Sir Ian McKellen

"Impassioned, intelligent, informative, and quite simply, one of the best theatre books I have read."--Michael Coveney "The Financial Times (London) "

Book Description

Completely revised and expanded with entirely new material detailing Callow's relationship with the theatre in the twenty years since Being an Actor first appeared.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140239251
• ISBN 13: 9780140239256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256