Being an Actor by Simon Callow

Being an Actor by Simon Callow

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Zusammenfassung

Simon Callow provides a gloomy assessment of the state of British theatre. He describes the decline of ensemble playing, a lack of training for young actors and "brochure theatre" where novelty replaces substance, and warns that without attention to stagecraft, British theatre will surely die.

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Being an Actor by Simon Callow

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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ISBN 13 9780140239256
ISBN 10 0140239251
Titel Being an Actor
Autor Simon Callow
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 1995-02-23
Seitenanzahl 256
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