Basic On Stage Survival Guide For Amateur Actors

A revised edition of the amateur actors must-have guidebook! Here are helpful tips, tricks, and trivia for any novice actor or anyone wanting to set foot on the theatrical stage for the first time. What to expect at an audition for a play. What are directors looking for in an actor and what are they trying to avoid? How does the rehearsal process work? How do you know where to walk and stand on the stage? Where are upstage and downstage? Is Stage right my right or the audience's right? How do you memorize all of these lines? This improved book will help guide you through those questions and more in a very concise and humorous manner. Plus 14 secret rules of the stage. You'll be writing down your blocking and highlighting your dialogue in no time!