Toast on Toast: Cautionary Tales and Candid Advice
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In Toast on Toast - part memoir, part 'how to act' manual - Steven Toast draws on his vast and varied experiences, providing the reader with an invaluable insight into his journey from school plays to RADA, and from 'It's a Right Royal Knockout' to the Colony Club. Along the way, he reveals the secrets of his success. He discloses how to brush up on and expand your technical and vocal skills, how to nail a professional voiceover, and how to deal with difficult work experience staff in a recording studio. He also reveals the dangers of typecasting, describes the often ruthless struggle for 'top billing', and shares many awesome nuggets of advice. The end result is a book that will inspire and educate anyone who wants to tread the floorboards. It will also inform (and entertain) anybody who simply wants to discover what a jobbing actor's life is actually like. Includes a detailed index for quick and easy orientation.
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Can you hear me Stephen?
Toast of London is a British television sitcom set in London. Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry created it. And it stars Berry as Steven Toast, the central character of the series. Toast is a bumbling, self-important actor. He's an unsuccessful ladies' man and often the bearer of bad fortune. Toast considers himself a success despite his failing career. He is eccentric, with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.
In 2015, Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews published Toast on Toast: Cautionary tales and candid advice. This is the spoof autobiography of Steven Toast. It was also released as an audio book read by Matt Berry. This is the version you should get. Steven Toast tells his tall tales, part memoir, part “how to act” manual, with lots of sweary words.
Toast also breaks down the craft into simple bullet points. These are as easily digestible as liquidised water. He also offers his own views on the industry. Not always a laugh out loud listen, but it is very enjoyable. Recommended, if like the TV series and his unique “toastmodern” approach to life.
