Actor
Find various books on being an Actor, from fact, to fiction. SA Career Focus has assembled these titles for your convenience. To purchase any of the books reviewed below, please click on the title/icon of the relevant book, and you will automatically be linked to the supplier's website. All orders, purchases and payments are dealt with directly by them. Actors play character parts in live or recorded performances. They portray characters in productions in order to communicate an author's script in a creative fashion. They must interpret each role and depict it through speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain, instruct or inform the audience.  Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers applies directly to the experience of theatrical production; students will immediately be able to relate the concepts and procedures they learn to their artistic work. The author's procedural method is detailed and precise. The parts of a play are learned progressively, which fosters an understanding of the concept of artistic unity. Examples are clear and comprehensive. Actors, directors, and designers will benefit from end-of-chapter questions and summaries meant to stimulate their creative process as they engage in production work.
* Including for the first time Konstantin Stanislavski's "Method of Action Analysis"
* Focuses on playable theatrical values
* Examples from wide selection of plays, historical and modern Review by Kalahari.net  Acting Is a Job: Real-Life Lessons about the Acting Business
Tough love for the uninitiated actor meets from-the-trenches guide for working and aspiring actors in this young, hip look at the demanding acting profession. A working actor shares his 'day player' insight into the humour and heartbreak of a thespian trying to find work, telling actors what they need to know the first day on the set and showing how to cope with the economic realities of an actor's life. The author is a young actor who has landed professional acting gigs; he knows and addresses issues of greatest interest to actors looking for work. He provides warts-and-all insight into the struggles and rewards of a professional acting career. He also debunks popular myths about what actors earn; how they can be "discovered"; and what they can expect before, during, and after a training program. This book features lively anecdotes from the author's personal experience plus in-depth interviews with actors, agents, casting directors, and other industry professionals. Aimed at working and aspiring actors Review by Kalahari.net  An Actor's Business: How to Market Yourself as an Actor No Matter Where You Live
An Actor's Business: 'How To Market Yourself As An Actor No Matter Where You Live' by actor, director, writer, and acting instructor Andrew Reilly presents need-to-know information for aspiring actors, including drama school basics, how to find an agent, the value of unions, getting roles in community theater, acting on television and in commercials, getting parts in movies, and much more. Reilly's no-nonsense writing style offers simple truth in plain terms, as well as a wealth of contact information and descriptions of acting opportunities in 25 regions throughout America. Highly recommended for any aspiring professional actor. This guide to the business of acting is a must-have for every actor, no matter where you live. Review by Kalahari.net  Breaking Into Acting for Dummies
This guide aims to provide the expert advice you need to get your big break, jump-start your career and land that paying part. From preparing for auditions to finding an agent, the acting business is a challenging and competitive field. This guide is what every aspiring actor needs to get a foot in the door. Discover how to market yourself, choose a dynamic head shot, create a stellar acting resume, join unions, and pay the bills while you pursue your acting dreams. Review by Kalahari.net  Front Row: Evenings at the Theatre: Pieces from the Oldie
Best known as an acclaimed novelist, Beryl Bainbridge is also a former actor. Expelled from school in Liverpool at the age of fourteen, she determined to tread the boards, joining the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre Company as an assistant stage manager. Here she received a unique form of education, reading Shakespeare and Ibsen, and eventually graduating from the role of a dog to the part of a boy mathematical genius for which she had to have her hair cut. Later she appeared in two early episodes of Coronation Street as Ken Barlow's girlfriend. Her love of the theatre endured after she became among the best-loved writers of her generation. One of her most successful novels, "An Awfully Big Adventure", drew on her theatrical experiences, and she has often written about the theatre, in her former column in "The Standard", and more recently, in the monthly theatre reviews she writes for "The Oldie". "Front Row" is a collection of Beryl Bainbridge's best writing about the theatre. It contains fascinating insights into the work of such contemporaries as Alan Bennett, Alan Rickman and Ronald Harwood, alongside amusing sketches of the actors Bainbridge worked with in her early years, including Judith Chalmers and Billie Whitelaw. And in her autobiographical introduction, Beryl Bainbridge evokes all the magic that the footlights possess for her. Review by Kalahari.net
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