{"product_id":"9781839041419-what-actors-do-advice-to-the-pla","title":"What Actors Do","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdvice to the Players in Seven Paradoxes and a Manifesto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevered theatre director Mike Alfreds explores the wellspring of the actor's craft. Frank, uncompromising and full of sharply focused insights, this book will show you how to generate truthful performances by trusting your inner creativity and remaining radically open, responsive and present in every moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Only what is open and searching is active and alive. You, the actor, must learn to find security in insecurity, certainty in uncertainty, to trust that this will lead to discovery and growth.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWhat Actors Do\u003c\/em\u003e, revered theatre director Mike Alfreds explores the wellspring of the actor's craft, tracing a pathway to creative freedom through the thickets of competing methodologies and confusing paradoxes that you will face throughout your training and career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do you give life to a character that both is and isn't yourself? How can you be childlike and open in your work without becoming childish? How, when you know what's coming next, can you still be spontaneous?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank, uncompromising and full of sharply focused insights, this book will help you strip away the inhibitions and habitual thinking that can shackle our imaginations. It will show you how to generate truthful performances by trusting your inner creativity and remaining radically open, responsive and present in every moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMike Alfreds has been directing plays for more than seventy years. In the 1970s he founded Shared Experience, and has since worked for the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and also extensively abroad. He is hugely respected within the profession, and is the author of two previous books, \u003cem\u003eDifferent Every Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThen What Happens?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'If I was allowed to train again to be an actor, but I was only allowed one teacher, it would have to be Mike Alfreds. To me he is a genius when it comes to acting and storytelling' \u003c\/strong\u003eMark Rylance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40990371348577,"sku":"9781839041419","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26975993.jpg?v=1721396264","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781839041419-what-actors-do-advice-to-the-pla","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}