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An invaluable, practical guide to an acting career - ""A really useful book for every actor to own"" (Prunella Scales) Make Acting Work is an essential guide for anyone wishing to develop a career in this exciting but unpredictable profession. It offers a level-headed appraisal of the challenges that actors face and identifies a wide range of opportunities that exist for the resourceful. Practical advice is given on all the critical elements, including preparing a CV, photographs, demo-tape and showreel, getting an agent, and auditioning. The different requirements of theatre, radio, film and tv are explained, as well as a comprehensive survey of less traditional work, such as voice-overs, corporate training and role play. ""This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury"" (Annette Badland)

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An invaluable, practical guide to an acting career. A really useful book for every actor to own Prunella Scales This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury Annette Badland

An invaluable, practical guide to an acting career. A really useful book for every actor to own &#8212;Prunella Scales <br><p> This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury &#8212;Annette Badland

An invaluable, practical guide to an acting career. A really useful book for every actor to own --Prunella Scales<br><br><p> This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury --Annette Badland

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Chrys Salt teaches regularly at the Actors Centre in London. She is a freelance writer and theatre d irector and is Artistic Director of Bare Boards... and a passion Theatre Company. She has made numer ous appearances on stage, television and radio, as a performer, directed extensively in theatre and sound, and written several books, theatre and radio plays, features and documentaries. Her book Here We Go: Women's Memories of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike won a National Media Award.

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