Small Actors

Small Actors
Author: Stephen Gregg
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780871297686

Access to markets for small actors in the roots and tubers sector. Tailored financial services and climate risk management tools to link small farmers to markets

Access to markets for small actors in the roots and tubers sector. Tailored financial services and climate risk management tools to link small farmers to markets
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2019-07-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9251316295

The roots and tubers industry in sub-Saharan Africa has been growing steadily in recent years. Nevertheless, a series of challenges, including lack of access to finance and climate change related events, has prevented the majority of actors in these value chains, who are mainly small farmers and small processors, from taking advantage of such growth. In order to properly assess such challenges, the project “Strengthening linkages between small actors and buyers in the roots and tubers sector in Africa” conducted a series of studies to identify relevant gaps, constraints and opportunities to develop tailored financial products and risk management strategies for small farmers. The present publication provides a summary of the most important lessons learned, with the related policy recommendations.

Shooting Stars of the Small Screen

Shooting Stars of the Small Screen
Author: Douglas Brode
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0292783310

Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the Western never actually disappeared from TV. Instead, it took on new forms, such as the highly popular Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, while exploring the lives of characters who never before had a starring role, including anti-heroes, mountain men, farmers, Native and African Americans, Latinos, and women. Shooting Stars of the Small Screen is a comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western series or a made-for-TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008. Douglas Brode covers the highlights of each actor's career, including Western movie work, if significant, to give a full sense of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how these programs both reflected and impacted the social world in which they aired. Brode opens the encyclopedia with a fascinating history of the TV Western that traces its roots in B Western movies, while also showing how TV Westerns developed their own unique storytelling conventions.

Short & Sweet Skits for Student Actors

Short & Sweet Skits for Student Actors
Author: Maggie Scriven
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing,U.S.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's plays, American
ISBN: 9781566081689

These short skits with casts of two to six players cover a wide variety of topics and drama styles. Some skits are comic for learning comedy technique. Others are situations for students to learn more about themselves and others. The dialogue is crisp and easy to perform. Very little planning and memorisation is required to stage these skits. Many may be staged readers theatre style. They work well in a classroom and they may also be used in a theatrical setting. Sample titles include: Funny Isn't Always Funny, Gossip Among Friends, The Principal's Office, The Band and Party Girls, They can be staged and directed by the students themselves. Excellent for competition or comedy revue shows.

Tips for Actors

Tips for Actors
Author: Fergus Craig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1783196173

Foreword by Ellen Page, star of Inception, Juno and X-Men The perfect humorous gift for students, actors and anyone with an interest in theatre. In the most important theatrical book of this or any other decade, Twitter sensation @tips4actors gives you all the advice you need to take your acting to the next level. How to upstage your fellow cast members, what to wear on the first day of rehearsals, where to go for a poo in London's glamorous West End - it's all covered in here! Includes advice such as... 'Never read the script. Would your character read it? No, of course not. For them the script doesn't exist' and 'When having sex with a casting director, show off your acting by faking an orgasm'. This is a hilarious parody which demands to be read.

Acting in Film

Acting in Film
Author: Michael Caine
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2000-02-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476842752

(Applause Books). A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This revised and expanded edition features great photos, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more. "Remarkable material ... A treasure ... I'm not going to be looking at performances quite the same way ... FASCINATING!" Gene Siskel

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Acting

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Acting
Author: John Malone
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2001-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1436293855

You're no idiot, of course. You've got tons of talent, but when it comes to bringing it centerstage you feel like you're just winging it. You love the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd, but you're not sure how to follow your dream. Don't overreact! 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Acting' will help you hone your thespain skills and step into the limelight! In this 'Complete Idiot's Guide', you get: -Auditioning etiquette and tips on making a strong impression. -Rehearsal rigor, from read-throughs and blocking to taking stage directions and dealing with backstage gossip. -Tips on balancing theatrics with other obligations like school, work, and your family. -Tons more reasons why acting is important, from how it affects your everyday life to how it could help get you a scholarship or a promotion.

Playing Small

Playing Small
Author: Christine Horn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2019-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733981200

You've left another audition feeling defeated. You're pissed because those damn nerves took over your body... again. The real you actually never stepped foot in that audition; your nervous representative did. You go home and wonder if that casting office will ever call you again. The next audition you get forces you to replay this scenario over and over again, and you wonder if you even have what it takes to become a working actor. Instead of learning from the experience, it now haunts you. Packed with insider secrets from a working, Hollywood actress, Playing Small: The Actor's Guide To Becoming A Booking Magnet is an incredibly readable and rich tapestry for any actor, especially those pursuing a career in film and television. Life and Career Coach, Christine Horn, pulls back the curtain of her own successful career to teach us one simple, yet complicated lesson: your thoughts are sabotaging your career. And she is brave enough to allow the piece to unfold with a distinct straightforward simplicity that never loses its edgy intellect.This game-changing book will challenge you to push past the strategy you think you know and force you to identify the BIG fears that have held you back from running toward your dreams with your fullest potential. You will learn how to break through your psychological roadblocks that have kept you playing small and feeling stuck in a cycle of stinking thinking, useless comparison, procrastination, fear, shame, doubt, and worry.With hundreds of successful client stories under her belt, Christine teaches you how to find the fun in acting again and how to become a booking magnet.

Directing

Directing
Author: Michael Rabiger
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2003
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0240805178

Artistic identity - Screencraft - Writing and store development - Aesthetics and authorship - Preproduction - Production - Postproduction - Career track.

When Bad Things Happen to Good Actors

When Bad Things Happen to Good Actors
Author: Ian McWethy
Publisher: Stage Partners
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

A simple one-act production of The Wizard of Oz gets derailed by missed cues, forgotten lines, and a renegade sound board op who refuses to play anything but dinosaur noises. A comedy that proves, when it comes to live theatre, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and it will be hilarious. Comedy One-act. 25-30 minutes 10-30 actors, gender flexible