Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting

by Harriet Walter

Overview

Harriet Walter's wonderfully practical - and personal - introduction to acting.

"Acting is what I do with who I am", writes Harriet Walter. And in this book she takes us step by step through the processes involved in performance. Each step of the way is illuminated with brilliantly precise examples drawn from her own experience.

'My advice to a young actor: read this book' Richard Eyre

'Buy it, and be delightfully and unhectoringly informed about exactly what it is that actors get up to and why... Harriet Walter is sharp, clear, elegant, sturdily sensitive' Observer

'A fascinating insight into the working life of an actor... very enjoyable' The Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780010908
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	06/26/2014
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	388 KB

About the Author

Harriet Walter trained at LAMDA and started with fringe groups such as joint stock before moving on to the Royal Court (Cloud Nine, Hamlet with Jonathan Pryce), the RSC (Nicholas Nickelby, Macbeth with Antony Sher) and the National (Arcadia). On TV, she is best known as Amy in Unfinished Business and Harriet Vane in the Lord Peter Wimsey Series. Her films include Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility and Louis Malle's Milou in Mai.