Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166887 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 54 pages

Customer Reviews

COLD SCRIPT READ PRIMER
This fast read (54 page `booklet') amounts to what you would expect to hear from a seasoned pro from an extended interview.

Basil presents his brief insights in a question and answer format jumping form topic to topic without getting all boggled down in any one of them.

Six of the 54 pages are BW stills from his previous work, that really do not add anything to the subject outside of reminding you of who this guys is / was in films you might or might not have remembered him from.

While there is some to be gained in terms of a "cold script reading primer," the book is a bit over priced at 12.95 which is to say that the material is probably worth half that much if not much less.

Having said that, it is well written and I do find myself re-reading it haphazardly from time to time because he does manage to walk you through what auditions feel like.

Not what I expected
I was looking for a book about cold reading as is done by fortune tellers, etc. and bought this book about auditioning, as in cold reading of a part in a play, by mistake. It should be understood that this book is not about mentalism, magic, psychology or any related art.

Title is misleading (Not a psychic reading book)
This book has been grouped in with psychic titles in the "people who bought this also bought". It is not a psychic book but an acting book.