Ebook: An actor's companion: tools for the working actor

Foreword / by Anne Hathaway -- TIPS. Do stuff ; Keep the activity going ; Really do it ; The conversation exercise ; Dovetail ; Avoid psychological crosses ; Look before crossing ; Entrances and exits ; Ease into the play ; Confiding ; Break up the line ; Real-life models ; Costumes help ; Look to the response ; Beware of eyeballing ; Stay in touch ; A focus trick ; Loading ; Time deadlines ; Get caught in the act ; Explore the contrary impulse ; Just say it ; Negative choices are a no-no ; Don't bring coals to Newcastle ; Be a good liar ; Leave the emotions alone ; Don't deny ; It's okay to laugh ; Surprises ; Break the patterns ; Releasing pauses ; Change the circumstances ; What's going on? ; One thing at a time ; Make it hot ; Make it unimportant ; The impulse exercise ; Transformation ; Translate ; Get physical ; Respect the itch ; Become a director ; Scenes are built around conflict ; Add up your lines ; Get to it ; Physicalize your intentions ; Find the main event ; Give yourself somewhere to go ; Maybe, kinda, sorta ... ; Interrogations ; Similarities and differences ; Run away from confrontation ; Don't let the neighbors hear ; Get it over with ; Are you ahead of yourself? ; Blow it out ; Conventional behavior ; Connect the dots ; Stay out of your head ; Skip the beginning ; Flirting ; Break the mood ; Follow through ; Stalling ; Face-offs ; It's called a play ; Get off the train ; Join the audience ; Parallelism ; Amplification ; Easy or difficult? ; Flip-flops ; Rehearse in public ; The silent improv ; Detail the environment ; It's a 3-D world ; It's no big deal ; Quick bargains ; Shut us out -- CLASSICAL TEXT TIPS. Know what you're saying ; Avoid stressing pronouns ; Common sense works ; Look for lists ; Find the juju word ; What did they say? ; Look for the argument ; Be wary of punctuation ; Beware of annotations ; Vocal range ; It's all the same ; Round the corner ; Steal from yourself ; Are you talkin' funny? ; Start slowly ; Are you sure it's a soliloquy? ; MONOLOGUE TIPS ; Don't eyeball the wall ; Start to yourself ; Set up off-center ; Eliminate the prep -- WORDS OF WISDOM. Acting maxims -- QUICK REFERENCE. Tips at a glance.;"A collection of practical acting tips, tools, and exercises, An Actor's Companion is ideal for both the seasoned professionals and actors-in-training. The tips--all simple, direct, and useful--are easy to understand and even easier to apply, in both rehearsal and in performance."--Page 4 of cover.