How to increase my acting skills?

Question:im 17 and i really love the cinema and theater world.

i have an english course and willing to learn and work to get what i want.

can you please name a few things to increase my acting skills?

im waiting for a reply to start working on a play - Richard II by Shakespeare and as this is my first acting work i really want to start good and do a good job.

Thanks in advance

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: im 17 and i really love the cinema and theater world.

i have an english course and willing to learn and work to get what i want.

can you please name a few things to increase my acting skills?

im waiting for a reply to start working on a play - Richard II by Shakespeare and as this is my first acting work i really want to start good and do a good job.

Thanks in advance

Wow you had an english course, I am so impressed - NOT.

The only one that knew if your english is good enough to work in is you. There is billions that speak english flewless or something like that and millions that use it every day as a mother launguage or not. So please dont get up on the high horsers just because you had a course...

What you need is training (and a lot of it), experience (and a lot of it) education and the right connections and agents.

Even if you managed to get a work as an english speaking actor there is a long way to became a star. Even top notch actors end up as not well known ones. Johan

dont act. do it as if you were actually doing it. thats how actors actually become famous. they become the character

Oral interpretation - orally

Often when READING a script, we can hear it in our mind the way it would sound good to be portrayed, but then when it comes out our mouth, it's like "What happened between my mind and my mouth".

Volunteer at your local library reading [expressively] to children. You'll find out quickly how "captivating" you are.

After reading a script, begin vocalizing it. Use a recorder to hear how it comes out. Our mind can still HEAR what we want it to hear sometimes, and not what OTHERS are hearing....

practice on monologues, observe plays and movies, and reviews to see what you need. try to join a theater or a drama club or improv class for exampe, english and literature probably won't help you, but watching and imitating/practicing will.

Like the second answerer said, do not act, become the character.

The way to increase your acting skills is just like anything else, by actually doing it. (Why do so many people on here seem to think they can become actors without any training or experience? It takes work people!!)

Sign up for a class and audition for your local community theatre. If you live in a non-English speaking country and you want to act in English plays and films, then your going to have to move to an English-speaking country.

As for tips for Richard II - speak clearly and slowly. The worse thing you could do when acting Shakespeare is speak the words in a way that no one understands them - Shakespeare is hard enough to understand as it is!