How to Stop Acting A Renowned Acting Coach Shares His Revolutionary Approach to Landing Roles, Developing Them and Keeping Them Alive

Name: How to Stop Acting A Renowned Acting Coach Shares His Revolutionary Approach to Landing Roles, Developing Them and Keeping Them Alive
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ISBN: 9780571199990

ISBN-10: 0571199992

ISBN-13: 9780571199990

Edition: 2003

Authors: Harold Guskin, Kevin Kline

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“The Great Guskin” (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive Harold Guskin is an “acting doctor” whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. In How to Stop Acting, Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have worked wonders for beginners as well as stars. Instead of yet another “method,” Guskin offers a strategy based on a radically simple and refreshing idea: that the actor’s work is not to “create a character” but rather to be continually, personally responsive to the text, wherever his impulse takes him, from first read-through to final performance.…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.29" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Kevin Kline is the Director of SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software, a leading provider of award winning tools for database management and application monitoring on the SQL Server platform. Kevin is also the President of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and frequently contributes to database technology magazines, web sites, and discussion forums. Kevin's most popular book is SQL in a Nutshell published by O'Reilly Media. Kevin is also the author of Transact-SQL Programming and three other books on database technologies. Kevin is a top rated speaker, appearing at international conferences like Microsoft TechEd, DevTeach, PASS, Microsoft IT Forum, and SQL…



Introduction



Prologue



Taking it off the Page



Exploring the Role to Uncover the Character



I Want This Part. How Can I Get it?



On Stage in Rehearsal and in Performance



Acting in Film and Television



Playing the Great Roles


Epilogue


Acknowledgment