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Letters to a young actor : a universal guide to performance
- Title
- Letters to a young actor : a universal guide to performance / Robert Brustein.
- Author
- Brustein, Robert Sanford, 1927-
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- vi, 234 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Having been at the forefront of the American theatre for the duration of his illustrious career, Robert Brustein has long been a mentor to many of today's most accomplished actors. Here, for the first time, he offers both sage advice and hard-earned wisdom for performers on every stage and screen, and at any level of experience. Letters to a Young Actor promised not only to inspire the multitudes of struggling actors out there pounding the pavement, but also to reinvigorate the art of acting itself."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- 1. Prologue -- 2. Inching into the profession -- 3. The pleasures of imitation -- 4. An actor's calling -- 5. The anti-theatrical prejudice -- 6. How to act in college -- 7. The case for advanced training -- 8. How to act in drama school -- 9. Into the "real world" -- 10. When worlds collide -- 11. Looking for work -- 12. Some exemplary careers -- 13. The transforming actor -- 14. The actor's intelligence -- 15. Film versus theatre -- 16. The repertory ideal -- 17. Actors and management -- 18. Actors and audiences -- 19. Actors and directors -- 20. Actors and auteurs -- 21. Actors and playwrights -- 22. Actors and designers -- 23. Actors and coaches -- 24. Actors and critics -- 25. Ephemeris, Ephemeris -- 26. Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0465008062 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004023438
- OCLC
- ocm56729882
- SCSB-5160057
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries