Mastering the Audition: How to perform under pressure [Paperback] Soto-Morettini, Donna

Soto-Morettini, Donna

ISBN 10: 1408160617 / ISBN 13: 9781408160619

Published by Methuen Drama, 2012

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Paperback. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. Our copy shows light shelfwear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mastering the Audition: How to perform under pressure [Paperback] Soto-Morettini, Donna
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408160617
• ISBN 13: 9781408160619
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 9 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theatre/Performance

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Synopsis

Frustrating, nerve-wracking, job-winning or job-losing, flawed yet necessary - auditioning is a maddening business for everyone involved. The people behind the audition desk are looking for a killer audition (often under tremendous pressure), but most of the auditionees walk into the room feeling nervous, unprepared, and unable to control their own performance.

Although the idea of creating 'winning performance strategies' is common in business and sports studies, no one has ever really attempted to bring the psychology of creating a winning performance to a book on auditioning.

Drawing on some fascinating, cutting-edge research into how the brain copes and responds in high-stress situations, Mastering the Audition looks closely at the effects of fear, at our flawed ability to assess or really know ourselves, at what really drives us, and at what it really takes to master the audition experience.

Applicable to all areas of performing, including reality television, musicals, stage, film and commercials, this book helps you hone your performing skills and develop the mental toughness that can keep you going through the inevitable ups and downs of the audition process. Where other books advise you to 'be confident' and 'be prepared', Mastering the Audition tells you exactly HOW.

About the Author

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).