Tips: Ideas for Actors / Edition 1

by Jon Jory

Overview

Until very recently, acting wisdom was passed on the form of "tips." Here are 205 of them-ranging from using opposites to the way to set a laugh, and on through a clear definition of "actions," how to use a "breath score," and even how to react if you're fired. The tips are clear, concise, evocative and constructed to give you a better day in rehearsal and a better night in performance. A buffet of ways to improve immediately that you'll want to have with you in your rehearsal bag.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575252025
Publisher:	Smith & Kraus, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2000
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.47(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jon Jory is in his 30th season as Producing Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville, during which time he has directed over 90 plays and produced over 600. Mr. Jory is recognized as a chief innovator and initiator for the American theatre during a crucial era of its growth. Throughout his career, Mr. Jory has devoted his energy to the rebirth of the regional repertory and excellence in all facets of production, but especially to the encouragement of new writers and the production of new American Plays. Mr. Jory is himself a published playwright.

Editorial Reviews

Jory, whose 31-year tenure as artistic director of the venerable Actors Theatre of Louisville ends this fall when he joins the drama faculty of the University of Washington, has assembled a pastiche of pointers that is a Helpful Hints from Heloise for actors. And when the producer of some 1300 professional works and a leading member of the brain trust behind The Humana Festival, the most significant incubator of new plays in the country, wants to dish on acting, actors listen. Arranged under a dozen major headings that include obligatory sections such as textual study, role building, technique, and strategy, each of the 205 tips is a succinct, one-page chestnut that will benefit actors of all levels. Jory s advice is both practical and theoretical, pedestrian and elevated. One particularly revelatory tip, Transitions, divulges what Jory the director most closely watches for in auditions. This is the kind of soup-to-nuts guide actors are starving for, and as a result there may be fewer starving actors. Another dead-on entry in Smith and Kraus s Career Development Series, this should be acquired by all collections supporting the needs of actors. Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L., TX Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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