Tommy Wonder's Building An Act

with extra material by Tom Stone

A revised edition of Tommy Wonder’s 2005 booklet, with additional writing by Tom Stone
Book
2017
Written by Tom Stone, Tommy Wonder
Work of Tom Stone, Tommy Wonder
41 pages (E-book), published by Warg
Illustrated with drawings by Tom Stone
Language: English
9 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Tom Stone Foreword
4
Tommy Wonder Building an Act
  • The Right Mind Set
  • Necessary Skills
  • Acting Skills
  • Knowledge of Variety Acts
  • Magical Skills
  • Prop Building
  • Generating the Idea for the Act
  • Judge its Changes of Success
  • Make it Ready to be Performed
  • Find a Place to be Bad
  • Improve the Act
  • Audience Appeals
  • Stage Technique
  • Very Basic Elements of Theatre
  • Plot
  • Recommended Books
Also published here
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Bonus Material by Tom Stone
16
Tom Stone Building a Show
  • A matter of taste
  • The big risk
  • Deadline
  • Title
  • Social Engineering
  • Information Gathering
  • Partnership?
  • Just a small step
  • Scripting
  • Forget Everything You Know
  • Be More Obvious!
  • New Light
  • Raw material
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Tom Stone The Thespian Toolbox
  • Structure
  • Remove Expositions
  • Remove Stock Lines
  • Be Specific, Not General
  • Localization In Time And Space
  • Condense The Gallery
  • Contrasts
  • Make Procedure Interesting
  • Emotions
  • Conflict
  • Transformation
  • Foreshadowing
  • Callbacks
Also published here
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Tom Stone Upping the ante
  • Creating Visuals
  • Finding a Director
  • Rehearsals vs. Practice
  • Attack the weakest spot
  • Harvesting the contacts
Also published here
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Tom Stone Ouroboros
  • Partnership
  • The Small Step!
  • Thespian Tools
  • Boosting the Ante
Also published here
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Tom Stone Walk the Talk
  • Everyone is Wrong!
  • Scenography
  • Advertising and posters
  • Dress rehearsals
  • Programme
  • Production Crew
  • Everything is news!
Also published here
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Tom Stone Final Words
41
Data entered by Denis Behr, February 2023.