The Actor's Survival Handbook Book

	Acting : what is it?	1
	Agents	4
	Amateur dramatics	6
	Anecdotes and jokes	8
	Attitude	10
	Audience	12
	Auditions	14
	Battle of the sexes	17
	Be yourself (plus!)	20
	Believability	22
	Blowing your nose	25
	Breaking up (corpsing)	27
	Business (biz)	29
	Casting directors	32
	Comedy and farce	34
	Commercial casting sessions	38
	Commitment	42
	Conservatories and drama schools	44
	Consistency	46
	Costumes, wigs, and shoes	48
	Crew	51
	Designers	54
	Dialects and accents	56
	Directors	58
	Discussions	61
	Don't ask for permission	63
	Don't give up	65
	Drugs	68
	Editing and acting	70
	Example : Al and Bob's first meeting	72
	Example : Anna Christie and her dad	75
	Example : Broadway versus Hollywood	78
	Example : brother and sister act	82
	Example : Kate and Corpsing	85
	Example : Lady Bracknell's handbag	89
	Example : Mr. and Mrs. Noah fight	93
	Example : Mr. Horner is exactly that	96
	Example : Noel Coward on the phone	99
	Example : Olivia's ends	103
	Example : plunging in the deep end	105
	Example : princely business	109
	Example : signs of the times	112
	Example : the silence of the lads	116
	Example : valuable verbals	119
	Example : you, thee - and the gold	122
	Eye-to-eye contact	125
	Fellow actors	128
	Film versus television	131
	Forgetting lines	133
	Further training	136
	Gear changes	138
	Getting work	140
	Good and bad taste	143
	Hierarchy	145
	Homework	147
	Illness	149
	Improvisation	151
	Instinct versus intellect	154
	Interviews	156
	It's not what it used to be	158
	Jobs requiring acting skills	160
	Journey	162
	Know your image	164
	Laughter	166
	Learning lines	169
	Less is more?	172
	Let the words do the work	174
	Medieval acting	176
	Melodrama acting	177
	Method acting	179
	Mistakes	182
	Modern contemporary acting	184
	Money is probably the answer	186
	Movement and gestures	188
	Multicamera versus single camera	192
	Never say no	194
	No training	196
	Notes	198
	Open auditions	202
	Opposites	204
	Outside-in versus inside-out	206
	Over the top	209
	Pauses	211
	Performing	213
	Photographs	215
	Problems	218
	Producers	220
	Projection	222
	Properties (props)	224
	Pulling focus	226
	Punctuality	228
	Qualifications	230
	Radio acting	232
	Readings	235
	Rehearsals (long, short, or none)	238
	Rehearsing	241
	Rejection	244
	Restoration acting	247
	Resumes	249
	Role-play	251
	Screen acting	254
	Screen cheating	257
	Screen reactions	260
	Screen vocal levels	262
	Sex and violence	264
	Shakespeare acting	266
	Shakespeare : first folio	268
	Shakespeare : prose or poetry	271
	Shakespeare : simple or complicated	274
	Shakespeare : verse	277
	Shakespeare : what you call people	280
	Shakespeare : wordplay	283
	Shooting and acting	285
	Stars	287
	Starting off	290
	Step-by-step	292
	Style	294
	Teaching acting	296
	Technical and dress rehearsals	298
	Technique	300
	Ten-second rule	302
	Text	304
	The team	308
	Thinking	311
	Training	313
	Truth	315
	Typecasting	319
	University courses	321
	Versatility	323
	Voice	325
	Whatever works	327
	You (your other life)	329