WORKING ACTOR
My Brilliant Unsuccessful Career
by Pat Beaven
We've read the celebrity memoirs - the deep dives into the lives of the (maybe) 2% of actors who ever make it BIG. But what's life like for the other 98%? In this intimate and sometimes comic account, the author offers a tour through the perils and passions, the realities and random gigs of an actor just trying to make a living doing work she loves. The struggle is real! You'll roll your eyes at her missteps and be in her corner as she figures out how to define success on her own terms.
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FAKE PATIENT
Come behind the scenes to learn how medical actors help student docs learn to deal with the care, crises, and conversations of their future real-life patients. The author shares the standardized patient experience with unflinching candor and deep reflection
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Two decades of simulating pain, sickness and dementia
by Pat Beaven
STILL DANCING
Thirteen lifelong dancers share their journeys
by Pat Beaven
Dancers with a lifetime of experience talk dance forms and fictions, realities, restrictions ... and the whole damn thing!
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CAUGHT IN THE 'TRAP
26 years of THE MOUSETRAP at Toronto Truck Theatre
by Pat Beaven
For 26 years Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap entertained hundreds of thousands of people at Canada's Toronto Truck Theatre. Caught in the Trap chronicles the highs, the lows, the personalities, and the particular stresses of a long-running theatrical production. It's part of Toronto's - and Canada's - stage history, and a story that deserves to be shared.
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ZINES ... minizines!
by Pat Beaven
