ACTing Now by Norman B. Schwartz

In this controversial book, Norman B. Schwartz suggests that many of the conventional training techniques that have come down to us from the American and British theater may not fully prepare today´s working actor for the special requirements of the market place where the actor is the seller asked by an agent or casting director to self-tape an audition for the buyer—a producer or director—whom the actor may never get to meet unless he or she is hired.