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The Great Acting Blog: “Never Go Back To The Old Thing”

28.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

If you're searching around for the next thing, never go backwards. It's easy to return to that old director from way back when or that old theatre company or that old anything. It's easy to go back because we're retreading old steps, slipping into an...

The Great Acting Blog: “Alec Baldwin’s Island”

27.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Alec Baldwin, we might remember, is the actor who, in the mid 1990s, could have been one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but passed on that particular opportunity in order to play Stanley Kowalski on Broadway. I was struck when in a...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Extraordinary Quality Of Big Goals”

26.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 26 Comments

Constantly remind yourself of the big goals you're pursuing, remind yourself of the end product you're aiming for, especially when the goal is going to take a little bit of time to accomplish. Why? Because this will help to prevent you from being sucked in, distracted...

The Great Acting Blog: “Get It Up, Get It On, Get It Out To The Audience”

25.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I spoke to Esme Hicks, assistant director at the Jermyn Street Theatre, about their forthcoming production of The Potsdam Quartet. TGAB: Tell us some general background on the play and what you're doing...

The Great Acting Blog: “Hold Your Nerve”

24.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The dry. That dreaded moment when we just can't remember that line of dialogue. The alarm bells going off inside us seem to drown out everything, we do our best to stay cool, hoping that our blank mind will suddenly be scrawled with the correct...

The Great Acting Blog: “Lose The Self-Concern”

24.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog, Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Having to pay close attention to what another person is saying to you, can be a bit of a pain. It requires real effort, real commitment and real discipline. We are suddenly putting someone else at the centre of our universe. It's much easier to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Be Your Own Perfect Director”

23.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

To follow on from yesterday's post, about how fear of making mistakes kills creativity - one of the things that hasn't been mentioned is our own response to ourselves whenever we make a mistake. How you treat yourself when you make a mistake affects how much...

The Great Acting Blog: “Good Actors Are Incredibly Creative And Generous”

22.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Maggie Clune is a playwright. In this Q and A, she talks about the process of workshopping her new play, Hangman, with a company of actors. TGAB: Tell us a little bit about Hangman...

Noirish Project Blog: “Third Podcast With Jay Harris On Sound Design”

22.10.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

"you can have a recording of a very silent room, and you don't have anything coming from outside...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Independent Actor”

21.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

One of the key points for actors in John Cleese's lecture on creativity is the notion that we cannot be creative if we fear making mistakes. I believe this to be true, our creative juices just dry up in such situations. It's especially poignant for...