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A review by girljames
Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting by Harriet Walter
4.0
I admire this woman so much. One of the best theatre experiences I ever had was watching the Donmar all-female Shakespeare trilogy in one day and being moved to tears by Harriet Walter's Prospero.
This memoir is older than her more recent "Brutus and Other Heroines", but just as excellent. She does a really good job of explaining what acting is like, including pointing out the things that most people don't understand about it - like the fact that good acting looks easy and usually isn't.
Her take is necessarily rooted in her experiences coming up in late twentieth-century Britain, and there is a short poetic chapter about who she might have been under other circumstances - if, if, if.
This memoir is older than her more recent "Brutus and Other Heroines", but just as excellent. She does a really good job of explaining what acting is like, including pointing out the things that most people don't understand about it - like the fact that good acting looks easy and usually isn't.
Her take is necessarily rooted in her experiences coming up in late twentieth-century Britain, and there is a short poetic chapter about who she might have been under other circumstances - if, if, if.