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The Great Acting Blog: “True Collaborators”

20.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It is said that there is only a certain number of people who we can collaborate with successfully, and that that number is not high. The number of people we can collaborate with successfully is finite. Therefore, we need to be able to correctly identify...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Much Will That Lie Cost?”

19.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It is often said that actors must do years of bad work before they can do anything good. As though they must give up their soul in order to enjoy some paradisal future. It's a dangerous game for the actor to play and requires him to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Question Popular Assumptions”

18.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 26 Comments

How much is it costing us to believe in sacred cows which are a lie? How much is that holding us back? To what extent does it hamper our ability to accomplish our career objectives? To use the smoking example, many smokers may not even begin...

The Great Acting Blog: “Slay Those Sacred Cows”

17.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Quitting smoking, we are lead to believe, is so difficult as to be almost impossible. It's supposed to cause all sorts of nasty side effects, and require immense will power as well as professional medical assistance. This is complete nonsense. Quitting smoking causes no side effects whatsoever,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Where Our Power Resides”

16.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I'm an advocate of actors establishing their own productions and taking control of their careers rather standing around in the dark hoping to be picked. One of the common complaints I here about self-production however, is that actors just want to be actors, they do...

The Great Acting Blog: “Simplify The Task With An End Date”

15.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Putting an end date on a goal avoids overwhelm - it gives clarity and focus and enables us to relax and function better. Why? Because by the assigned date we will have accomplished our goal or not, there are no vagaries, if we do accomplish...

The Great Acting Blog: “Do It Differently”

14.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Somebody once said we should break a habit at least once week. I second that. Do something differently to how you normally do it. I'm not talking necessarily about major tasks but perhaps lesser tasks where it might not be the end of the world...

The Great Acting Blog: “Define An Aesthetic”

13.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We are living in an era where there are more people offering themselves as actors than ever before. You can try to get ahead of the game by turning yourself into a great actor, by striving to be better than everyone else. But you can...

The Great Acting Blog: “Improve Your Acting By Doing Some Directing”

12.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

I often think actors should do some directing even if they have no ambitions for a directing career. I think it's useful because you get to view things from the other side of the fence so to speak.You get to see what a poorly prepared...

The Great Acting Blog: “Creative Capacity”

11.07.2013 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

I used to hold the egalitarian view that everyone had more or less the same capacity for creativity. This was based on the idea that creativity stems from the imagination and everyone has an imagination. I believed that some people simply chose to pay more...