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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...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Nature Of Ambition”

20.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Never become known for one thing, never make your work all about doing a trick, like the actor known for doing a Scottish accent so he gets called in whenever there's a Scottish character. Some would call that "branding" but I call it reductive. Your...

John Cleese On Creativity – Lecture Notes | The Great Acting Blog

20.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Cleese says there are five factors needed for creativity: 1. Space. 2. Time. 3. Time 4. Confidence. 5. Humour. 1. Says we can't become playful and therefore creative if we're under our usual pressures. We have to create space for ourselves away from those demands....

The Great Acting Blog: “Compare Today With Yesterday”

19.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I heard a great idea recently about accomplishing big, difficult objectives: Don’t worry about whether you’re getting closer to the objective each day, rather compare where you are at today with yesterday. The point is that making this comparison enables us to see our progress, even if...

Homo Sapiens Project At The IndieCork Film Festival

18.10.2013 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Five films from Rouzbeh Rashidi's Homo Sapiens Project played at the IndieCork Film Festival. The rest of HSPs play on Friday and Saturday between 1-7pm as part of the Festival....

The Great Acting Blog: “Simple Cinema Is The Actor’s Friend’

18.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

This week, I had the sheer joy of watching not one, but TWO Hong Song Soo pictures at the theatre. Nobody's Daughter Haewon was the first of his films to ever receive a UK theatrical release. The double wammy happened because he made two films this year, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “Exorcising A Wrong”

17.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Feel as though nobody ever helped you out? Then make sure you help somebody whenever you're in a position to do so. An associate was disloyal? Discard them, and choose loyalty whenever the opportunity for betrayal presents itself in the future. If you get into a position...

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