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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are in an amateur company - and even if you are not - then you should read this book. It will either persuade you to join an amateur society, or make you leave before you get corrupted.
It's too late for us, but you can still save yourself . . .
"The Art of Coarse Acting" can be considered the definitive work for any and all amateur societies - even if it is just a guide at what not to do!
I'm so glad it has come back into print, and the second revised edition has all the charm of the original and far more interesting information. Buy this now!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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As a long-time amateur actor, I can also verify the accuracy of Michael Green's excellent observations on this quintessentially English pastime beloved of eccentrics for generations. His characters "Askew" and "Watkins" speak for the experience of many throughout our land, both of the humour and enjoyment of acting and indeed the indispensibility of this distilled experience. A joy to read, and hopefully a fine advert for the many and varied pleasures of amateur dramatics, though I must admit to being disappointed that the author failed to discuss the potential traumas of acting naked (briefly), as I was forced to do during a production of Ray Cooney's Out of Order!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a very easy read and can be dipped into at any time for amusing anecdotes. Michael Green has beautifully observed the many facets of the classical amateur actor and compiled them into a genuinely funny book. This book is a must for the Christmas stocking of anyone who fancies themselves in the footlights - it will bring them straight down to earth with a bit of a bump.
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Buy this book... and then a corset
Buy this book... and then a corset. This book is beyond funny and will split more than just your sides. Read more
Published 5 months ago by P. Whiting
"....shall I put some more logs on the stove...?"
You only have to repeat that haunting line (in quavering elderly Peasant's voice) for the greater part of one family at least to collapse in helpless mirth. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Pulverulentus Siccus
Still makes me laugh out loud, two rereads later.
It's a short book, but it's absolutely packed stories, insights and self-deprecating good humour.
Plays may change, thunder techniques may march on, but human nature... Read more
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Published on 29 May 2010 by S. Blake
simply the best
this is the original and best . greens ability to capture the horror of getting up on a stage, ill - prepared, under-rehearsed, and with assorted technical catastrophes just... Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2010 by M. L. Simkins Esq
It's all true!
Anyone, anywhere, who has ever taken part in amateur dramatics will know that Michael Green is not exaggerating when he claims that every incident recorded in this book has really... Read more
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