Actors' Voices: The People Behind the Performances

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In conversation with Patrick OKane, eleven experienced actors who have made a living, a life, in theatre, television and film, share their process, comment on their experiences and consider their role as theatre artists within the broader spectrum of Art and Culture. Contributors, who have worked across a range of forms from mainstream theatre to experimental performance practice, include: Claire Price, Ruairi Conaghan, Mojisola Adebayo, Tim Crouch, Olwen Four, Gerrard McArthur, Gabriel Gawin, Selina Cadell, Simon Russell Beale, Paterson Joseph and Jim Norton. A book that actors can mine for tips on craftsmanship and the business. A book that reveals to directors which approaches enable actors and which block them. A book that calls the UK industry to attention: actors should be embraced as primary creators along with the writer, director and designer of any production.

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"The book is a rare creature, offering privileged and disarmingly frank encounters with the people behind the performances. It will engage anyone involved in or in love with theatre - practitioners, critics, customers, administrators, agents, teachers, students..." - "Irish Theatre"

Author Bio

Patrick O'Kane was born in Belfast & trained as an actor at the Central School. He has played leading roles at the major theatres in both the UK and Ireland, most recently Macbeth at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Hamlet at The Abbey Theatre Dublin and Dr Faustus at The Royal Exchange Theatre.