Let me play the lion too
Subtitle: how to be an actor / Michael Pennington
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780571231065; 9780571324897
Subjects: Actors; Biography; Acting; Vocational guidance
Description: How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What's the effect of a long tour on your love-life? Can you have a glass of wine before a matinee? What's the difference between transitive and intransitive corpsing? What is stage fright? In Michael Pennington's highly personal guide and memoir there are sections on rehearsals, on television then and now, on who does what on a film set, on the disciplines and rewards of musical theatre, and five directors discuss why the scenery is better on radio. Disability and racial bias in the theatre are discussed and we sometimes hear from other, younger voices who are following parallel paths. Infectiously enthusiastic, both conversational and profound, Let Me Play the Lion Too draws on the author's fifty years of experience to celebrate the deadly serious, sometimes hilarious, often misunderstood but infinitely enriching life of a professional actor.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Robert De Niro; title: Introduction: The way in. The 1960s: Michael Pennington ; The 1980s: Jatinder Verma and David K.S. Tse ; The 2000s: Annie Hemingway, Gwilym Lee and Gavin Fowler; title: Part one. The screen. Television now ; Television then ; Film: rehearsing; title: Film: shooting ; Part two. The stage. Getting hired ; The time of your life ; First night to last ; Musical theatre; title: Part three. Three essays. Sex and drugs and turning up ; The scenery's better on radio ; Wrongs and rights; title: Part four. Summing up. My A-Z ; Family secrets.