Break a Leg!: An Actor's Guide to Theatrical Practices, Phrases, and Superstitions

by Mark Brownell, Sue Miner

Overview

Do you hear booing from the blue fairies when you tread the boards? Did your clap trap work on the claque? Did that flash pot set off Mr. Sands in the first electric? Do you even know what those last three sentences mean? If not, then you need to read this book! Authors Mark Brownell and Sue Miner have compiled this one-of-a-kind glossary of off-beat theatrical phrases, words and superstitions. Break a Leg! is a culmination of theatrical lore from more than 25 years in the business. It also represents a collective knowledge that has been passed down for centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781990738098
Publisher:	J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Publication date:	10/05/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	310 KB

About the Author

Mark is a Toronto-based playwright and co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife and partner Sue Miner. Mark's stage plays include: The Martha Stewart Projects, Playballs, The Blue Wall, Medici Slot Machine, and High Sticking. In 2001, Mark was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for his play Monsieur d'Eon. He also received a Dora Mavor Moore Award with Chan Ka Nin for the opera Iron Road. In 2006, Mark received a Dora Mavor Moore nomination for his play Medici Slot Machine. Other works include The Weaving Maiden (Soundstreams/Tafelmusik Choir), Ice Time (Tapestry Music/Opera to Go), The Chevalier St. George (Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble), and The Storyteller's Bag (Mississauga Chamber Ensemble/Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People).

Since graduating from the National Theatre School’s Acting section in 1983, Sue Miner has been working extensively in various aspects of theatre across Canada. As well as having acted, directed, produced, and written, she has also been a designer of costumes, sets and sound. She has been an instructor and guest director at George Brown since 1995 and has been the Program Coordinator since the spring of 2017. Sue is also the co-artistic director of Pea Green Theatre Group with her husband Mark Brownell. In 2010 both Sue and Mark received a Harold Award for "Outstanding Contribution to the Toronto Performing Arts Scene." Along with many Dora nominations for her direction, Sue made the long list for the Siminovitch Prize for directing in 2007, has been thrice nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award and has twice been touted as one of Toronto’s Top 10 theatre artists by NOW Magazine.