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The opportunities for presenters have never been greater. But, although its seen as a glamorous job and a step to celebrity, being a TV presenter is also hard work, and demands a varied range of journalistic, technical, performance and personal skills.With a background in TV directing, working with professional presenters and training new ones for the TV industry, Kathryn Wolfe takes you through the techniques and skills required to become a successful presenter, including: How to read from a prompt and use in-ear monitoring How to talk to camera and talk to time How to cope with live, recorded, studio and location shoots How to present from home How to present for specialist channels (childrens, shopping, weather) How to create a successful CV and convincing showreel Hands-on exercises and checklists will guide you through improving your posture, overcoming nerves, developing correct breathing and good diction, being natural, evaluating your performance, and much more. The book is also packed with accessible advice and top tips from dozens of experienced and new presenters currently working on TV. It tells you what happens in auditions, and, above all, how to go about getting a job as a presenter.This revised and updated edition includes new material on self-tapes, presenting from home, and other recent changes to the industry.Essential and entertaining, this is a superb one-stop shop for anyone aiming at an on-camera career. Invaluable insider insights from a top telly-box talent Paul Ross (The Big Breakfast, Channel 4; Jeopardy!, Sky One; This Morning, ITV)Kathryn is the consummate teacher in TV presenting. Skilled at helping people find their own style, while combining with traditional tips and tricks used by more established presenters Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije (Jeremy Vine, Channel 5; 5 News)This splendid book covers every aspect of the job. I look forward to seeing you on my telly! Chris Tarrant (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, ITV)Accessible, engaging and easily read a great companion guide on your journey Natasha Huq (Grand Designs: The Streets, Channel 4)

A comprehensive guide to every aspect of producing a show, from raising the money to creating a hit - now revised and updated.This unique guide the first how-to book of its kind on the subject offers comprehensive, clear advice to anyone producing or selling a show, whatever the venue or scale. Packed full of insights and tricks of the trade, it will give you the inspiration and confidence you need whether you are taking your first steps in the profession or simply want to know what it takes to get a show on the stage.Drawing on his own experience as a producer of theatre productions at every level from university, via the fringe, to the West End James Seabright takes you through each stage of the process:- Having an idea for a show or getting the rights to an existing one - Planning your budget and raising the money - Booking your venue or a tour - Marketing and selling the show effectively - Getting the production designed, rehearsed and onto the stageFrom the fundamental (dealing with contracts) to the frivolous (how to organise your first-night party), every aspect is explained with the help of illuminating examples. There is also a wide-ranging appendix and a companion website with downloadable contract templates, marketing packs and budget spreadsheets.Essential reading for anyone contemplating a life in the theatre fast lane. Thelma Holt A perfect handbook for beginners and a useful aide-memoire for those of us whove been at it for years. Nicholas Allott, Managing Director, Cameron Mackintosh LtdAt last, hundreds of students on arts management and administration courses have a comprehensive reference book. It proves a unique guide for anyone taking their first steps into the world of productions Anthony Field, The Stage Yes! A good book on producing theatre, written by a successful theatre producer!...valuable insights on everything from the creative issues of coming up with the ideas and casting a show, through to tackling touring costs, insurance, marketing, PR and so forth...valuable information for anyone putting on a production of any scale in any setting.Total Theatre

A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays by one of Britains leading theatre directors. Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of different venues. He is the ideal author of a how to guide to directing.As Unwin himself says: Directing plays is difficult. The aim of this book is to lay out what skills are needed, and to give some sense of how you might develop them. The emphasis is on the professional theatre, but the book is useful for directors in other contexts - amateur dramatics, university drama, school plays and so on. Directing is directing, wherever you do it.Starting at the very beginning, Unwin takes us step by step through: * Choosing the play * Casting * Design * Rehearsal - Establishing Facts, Improvisation, Language, Character, Blocking, Using Specialists and so on * Running the Play * Putting it on the Stage * Opening Night

The definitive guide to designing for theatre by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name. With a Foreword by Alison Chitty.A theatre designer needs to be able to draw on a wide spectrum of skills, work collaboratively with all the different members of the production team, and deliver designs that work in the testing conditions of performance.This book guides you through everything you need in order to become and ultimately to succeed as a theatre designer, including: The various aspects of design set and props, costume, masks, make-up The applications of design opera, dance, site-specific, lighting, video and more The skills you require, and the training available The journey of a design from page to stage, from your first reading of the script, through research, first sketches, storyboards, technical and costume drawings, and on to the model The people you will collaborate with directors, producers, actors, writers and more and how to work effectively with each of them Finally, there are sections on landing your first production and furthering your career. Also included is a production timeline to guide you through the mechanics of contracts, copyright, costings, and what you need to have ready at each stage of the process. It is illustrated throughout with designs, by the author and other leading designers.Written by an experienced practitioner and teacher, this book will be an essential guide for any aspiring or emerging theatre designer, as well as anyone seeking a greater understanding of how designers work.A comprehensive introduction and guide to the world of the professional theatre designer, a key book for anyone contemplating entering the profession Alison Chitty, from her Foreword

How to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights.Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know, through the detailed construction of the play, and on to the strategies you can use to get it on stage. What kind of play do you want to write? Where do you get your ideas from? How much exposition do you need? Where do you find your characters voices? What should you do when you get stuck? Where should you send your play?The book also deals with the actual production: choosing directors, designers and actors, and coping with rehearsals, previews and press nights.Includes appendixes of vital websites, and contact details for new-writing theatres, agents and publishers.A marvellous and invaluable guide... full of wisdom and no-nonsense practical advice on the tricky but thrilling business of making playsWilly Russell

An essential handbook for anyone who wants to act on television and film by a leading teacher of screen acting.For any aspiring screen actor, the challenge is to combine all the components of your craft with an ability to handle the technical demands of acting for the camera within the often bewildering environment of a film set.Michael Bray takes you step by step through all the challenges youll face, demystifying the processes youll encounter, and helping you develop the necessary skills, including: How to approach the script and prepare your character How to maintain your concentration and learn to relax on set How to deliver your lines and improve your vocal range How to master continuity, eye lines, and hitting your marks How to tackle auditions to ensure your best chance of getting the job Full of invaluable advice, extracts from screenplays, numerous illustrations and practical exercises which can be undertaken on your own, using the camera on your phone this book is an accessible and authoritative guide to developing a successful career as a screen actor.

Apresentação e Sinopse A arte da escrita é realmente algo com dádiva divina. O prazer de pôr em pauta um determinado assunto, transformando o imaginário para o real é indescritível. Cada autor tem o

In "Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others," Edwin Thomas Sachs presents a comprehensive guide to the art of magic, primarily focusing on sleight of hand techniques. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book demystifies the intricacies of manipulation, misdirection, and performance, allowing readers to develop their skills from fundamental tricks to more complex illusions. The manual is steeped in the context of late 19th-century magic, a time when the art form was gaining significant popularity, yet it retains a timeless quality, appealing to both novices and seasoned performers alike. Edwin Thomas Sachs, a prominent magician and author, was deeply immersed in the world of performance magic, influenced by the burgeoning Victorian fascination with illusion. His professional background as a magician and his dedication to the craft equipped him with unique insights into the psychology of performance and audience engagement, which is reflected in his detailed instructions and anecdotes throughout the manual. This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the magical arts, as it not only serves as an instructive resource but also enriches the readers appreciation for the nuances of magic. Whether you aim to impress at social gatherings or simply explore a new hobby, Sachs manual provides the essential tools to unlock your potential as an amateur magician.

Renate lebte mit ihrem Mann Rachid und ihrer kleinen Tochter glucklich in der Schweiz, bis er nach Tunesien zuruck wollte, um die Firma seines Vaters zu ubernehmen. Doch kaum in dem reichen Elterhaus angekommen, anderte sich ihr Leben abrupt. Rachid wurde plotzlich zum strengen Moslem und Renate zur Sklavin der Schwiegermutter. Lange Zeit ertrug sie es aus Liebe zu Rachid, bis sie eines Tages nach einer weiteren Attacke seiner strengen Mutter vollig ausrastete ..

"Six personnages en quête dauteur" est une pièce publiée en 1921 et considérée comme le chef-dœuvre de Luigi Pirandello. Lauteur invite le spectateur à assister à ce qui lui est généralement caché: c

"Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1921) created Luigi Pirandellos international reputation in the 1920s and is still the play by which he is most widely identified. With originality that was startling to his contemporaries, Pirandello introduced a striking and compelling dramatic situation that initially baffled but eventually dazzled audiences and critics alike.The comedy, written in Italian, helped lay the foundation for the Theatre of the Absurd, a literary genre popular in the second half of the twentieth century. Absurdist drama presents life as meaningless, nonsensical, and comic. It may also allow unreality to exist in the real world. The story follows a theatre company that is interrupted by the arrival of six characters from an unfinished drama, with the remainder of the play blurring the line between fiction and reality and drawing attention to the nature of theatrical dramas. "Six Characters in Search of an Author" is a parody of the well-made play. All theatrical conventions and functions of personnel are examined in the play-within-the-play, which operates on different temporal planes.

The Manager [interpreting the rising anger of the COMPANY]. But I would beg you to believe, my dear sir, that the profession of the comedian is a noble one. If today, as things go, the playwrights give us stupid comedies to play and puppets to represent instead of men, remember we are proud to have given life to immortal works here on these very boards! [The ACTORS, satisfied, applaud their MANAGER.]The Father [interrupting furiously]. Exactly, perfectly, to living beings more alive than those who breathe and wear clothes: beings less real perhaps, but truer! I agree with you entirely. [The ACTORS look at one another in amazement.]The Manager. But what do you mean? Before, you said...The Father. No, excuse me, I meant it for you, sir, who were crying out that you had no time to lose with madmen, while no one better than yourself knows that nature uses the instrument of human fantasy in order to pursue her high creative purpose.The Manager. Very well, -- but where does all this take us?The Father. Nowhere! It is merely to show you that one is born to life in many forms, in many shapes, as tree, or as stone, as water, as butterfly, or as woman. So one may also be born a character in a play.The Manager [with feigned comic dismay]. So you and these other friends of yours have been born characters?The Father. Exactly, and alive as you see! [MANAGER and ACTORS burst out laughing.]

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca dautore) is a 1921 Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, first performed in that year. An absurdist metatheatrical play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" ("Madhouse!") and "Incommensurabile!" ("Incommensurable!"), a reference to the plays illogical progression

Sister Carrie: A Novel Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeAmerican writing, before and after Dreisers time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin, said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreisers great first novel, transformed the conventional fallen woman story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naive young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreisers unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today.Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman, noted Sinclair Lewis. Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature, observed Robert Penn Warren. [Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.

O ator. O ator num lugar entre outros dois lugares. O ator sobre uma rampa. O ator sobre uma linha reta. Dentro desta linha reta, todas as travessias do mundo. Dentro deste mundo, um mundo de travessias. E sobre o tempo. E sobre o absurdo e a maravilha de estar vivo aqui e agora. E gif. E meme. E videogame, e o jogador esta preso numa mesma fase. E um pais preso nas mesmas contradiçes. E a eterna escalada ao topo da montanha. E pau, e pedra, e o fim do caminho. E o começo do caminho uma vez mais. So sessenta travessias. So se tem o ponto de partida e o ponto de chegada: como se preenche esse percurso? E uma metafora para a vida. E a vida em si mesma. E este o jogo. A travessia talvez seja a grande protagonista de Sisifo. Inspirado no mito grego do homem que carrega diariamente sua pedra morro acima para ve-la rolar ladeira abaixo e começar tudo de novo , o texto escrito por Gregorio Duvivier e Vinicius Calderoni parte da mitologia ate o caotico mundo hiperconectado dos memes e dos gifs, do Brasil das contradiçes, do absurdo e dos recomeços."Sobre o palco, um ator e uma rampa. O ator caminha da extremidade inferior a extremidade superior da rampa. Quando conclui esse percurso, salta. E recomeça o mesmo traçado. E outra vez. E outra. Sempre assim. A seguir, sessenta maneiras de percorrer um mesmo caminho."

La importancia de aceptar las cosas como son y con humorCon un estilo irreverente, disruptivo y provocador, Marisol Benavides nos permite entrar a su mundo más íntimo y personal. Sin parámetros y sin anestesia, la autora nos invita a explorar en sus emociones, a escarbar en los miedos y a enfrentar las advesidades conhumor y sin pelos en la lengua.

Simon Russell Beale discusses playing Cassius in Shakespeares Julius Caesar in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles.In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes of a landmark Shakespearean production, recreating in detail their memorable performance in a major role. They lead us through the choices they made in rehearsal, and how the character works in performance, shedding new light on some of the most challenging roles in the canon. The result is a series of individual masterclasses that will be invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare and fascinating for audiences of the plays.In this volume, Simon Russell Beale discusses playing Cassius in Deborah Warners modern-dress Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre, London, in 2005.This interview, together with the others in the series (with actors such as Alan Rickman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter), is also available in the collection Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles by Julian Curry, with a foreword by Nicholas Hytner.

Cabrera ha escrito unos cuentos que nos ponen frente al dilema de saber si habla de la realidad social o de los fantasmas propios. Son cuentos que tratan de temas como la familia, las relaciones entre seres humanos, la soledad, los recuerdos, la locura, la maternidad, la ansiedad, los deseos, el caos emocional.La autora sabe como dosificar con virtuosismo las tensiones y los quiebres que muchas veces viven las personas. Pero no se trata de relatos que directamente hablen de la realidad; el valor de la pluma de Cabrera es hacer un extrañamiento para hacernos dar cuenta que hay intersticios, tramas, figuras inquietantes de las que muchas veces no nos damos cuenta y que forman parte de nuestras vidas.De este modo, los cuentos inquieren al lector, le obligan a identificar lo que no se percibe directamente, acaso las propias realidades internas.(Ivan Rodrigo Mendizabal, critico literario)PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

SCENEA Chamber in an old-fashioned House.Enter MRS. HARDCASTLE and MR. HARDCASTLE.MRS. HARDCASTLE. I vow, Mr. Hardcastle, youre very particular. Is there a creature in the whole country but ourselves, that does not take a trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little? Theres the two Miss Hoggs, and our neighbour Mrs. Grigsby, go to take a months polishing every winter.HARDCASTLE. Ay, and bring back vanity and affectation to last them the whole year. I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home! In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.

The poetry and plays of William Shakespeare continue to provide inspiration for designers in all aspect of media. Shakespearean Wig Styling offers detailed historical guidance on the styles and fashions of the day, and guides yo through twelve different wig designs covering a wide range of archetypal Shakespearian characters. Each example offers different techniques to meet the needs of the design, from material, knotting and curling to the final styling choices. Covering both the Tudor and Stuart periods, there are clear instructions within each example for making wigs from start to finish and adapting from the universal full-lace foundation to create alternative foundations, including added support for complicated styles such as the fontange. In addition, the book covers what to expect when working in the theatre or as a freelance wig-maker; fitting your client, measuring and taking a shell; methods for preparing the hair under a wig; knotting facial hair, hairpieces, hairlines, napes and partings; methods for breaking or dirtying down and finally, creating bald caps and receding hairline effects. This comprehensive book is an ideal companion for the newly qualified wig-maker and all professionals looking for a detailed reference guide to hairstyles from the Shakespearean era.