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Author:   Donna Soto-Morettini (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.222kg
ISBN:  

9781350230347

ISBN 10:   1350230340
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   10 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Acting Good And Bad What Does a Good Performance Feel Like? An Actor’s Brain Works In 3 Stages Acting Is a Holistic Process The Actor’s Brain Our Specs Battling On More Than One Front Self-Consciousness And Fear Modes Of Thinking The Right Mode at The Right Time Memory How Memory Works Text And Memory Memory And Mood Congruence The Blissful State of Automaticity Working With Memory Character Who Am I Anyway? Predicting Behaviour My Character Wouldn’t Do That Turn Your Prep on Its Head Imagination And Attention The Fragile State of Attention 2 Types of Imagination The Impulse to Speak Mindfulness As a Weapon Emotion Emotion And Feeling The WHOLE Emotional Picture: Primary, Background, And Social Emotion Learning From Sherlock Holmes Performance Anxiety Your Brain Is Not Your Friend The Power of Accepting Yourself Letting The Mental Battle Go Selected Bibliography Index

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Donna Soto-Morettini has served as Director of Drama for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Head of Acting and Dance for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and Head of Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. She has worked as casting director and performance coach for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s television shows, as casting director for The Voice and performance coach for ITV’s Popstar to Opera Star. Her books include Mastering the Audition: How to Perform Under Pressure (2012),Popular Singing and Style (2014), and Mastering the Shakespeare Audition (2016) and The Philosophical Actor (2010).

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