Toast on Toast

Cautionary tales and candid advice

Steven Toast, Arthur Mathews

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782117506
• Year: 2015

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Chapter 1 ‘We’d Love you to be in the Show . . .’
• Chapter 2 Formation
• Chapter 3 The Bohemian
• Chapter 4 Work
• Chapter 5 Topping the Bill!
• Chapter 6 Those Heads Don’t Match
• Chapter 7 Dog Eats Dog
• Chapter 8 A Mound of Silence
• Chapter 9 Teacher and Pupil
• Chapter 10 ‘I’ve Always Been Fascinated . . .’
• Chapter 11 Achievement
• Index
• Appendix A Selected Theatre Reviews 1976–2009
• Appendix B Selected Production Posters 1976–2009
• Plates Section
• Appendix C: Diary 1970