How to Rehearse When There Is No Rehearsal: Acting and the Media

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
• Published by: Limelight Editions March 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0879103426
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0879103422
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
This practical book on the subject of how to act, based on Ms. Spivak's forty years of acting, coaching, and teaching classes - first at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen's HB Studio, then on her own - provides a step-by-step system for analyzing and building a character organically, which can be applied even in the short time an actor has to prepare for auditions and for many television performances. Timely advice includes how to do camera takes, interpret and follow stage directions, and how to prepare for auditions and work in theater, film, television commercials, and television soap operas, sitcoms, and nighttime dramas.

Reader Reviews
This book really taught me a lot. I am a student who is studying acting, hoping to one day be on stage in New York, however have always struggled with how to practice. It's easy for me when I'm with other people and under the stage lights to concentrate on different aspects of my acting, however when those outside things aren't there and I'm at home, I don't rehearse in a way that is most productive. This book has given me many ideas from how to read the script to making the character my own to what to do in front of directors and cameras. I highly suggest everyone to buy this book...there are always things that can be learned, even when you think you have it already!