The danger for many actors is career ambivalence. This is a situation whereby they beaver away trying to get acting work but none is forthcoming. They end up with the bone-crushing insanity which comes from being dedicated to craft but without having the opportunity to...
Read MoreIn yesterday's post I was not defending the use of phones during a performance as some of the messages I received seemed to think. My point was that it's impact is exaggerated and the irascible way that theatres deal with the issue is a symptom...
Read MoreI was at the theatre recently and just before the play was about to start a recorded voice came over the tannoy reminding us to turn our mobile phones off. Now, there's nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but this voice possessed a...
Read MoreEmbed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'KvKw3RRBTlVyM9BI91A1iQ',sig:'OOv_XC5NrAnOO4t33ROB4JbiRZMQULN7UgWzWCcSXIA=',w:'395px',h:'594px',items:'544381638',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })}); Ralph Fiennes is one of the few true artists still working in our commercial cinema. He happens to be a great actor too, with the word "great" being a noun rather than an adjective. I stumbled upon an...
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Read MoreI often say that we need to promote the things we love in order to create the culture we want to be a part of - this means promoting the actors, films, plays etcetera that we want to see more of. Sometimes though, somebody promotes our...
Read MoreCompletion is difficult because completion can cause disappointment. We can sabotage an important project at the crucial moment in order to avoid the disappointment of the finished result being less than we hoped it would be. The moment of truth is never arrived at. It's impossible...
Read MoreI generally think haters should be ignored. They're usually anonymous or people we don't know, and they usually fling their poison when hidden behind a computer monitor and/or when safely ensconced in another country on the other side of the world. However, there is another kind...
Read MoreThey say actors face rejection all the time, but the reality is that actors reject themselves. It's about the things we tell ourselves about the things which happen to us. Didn't hear anything after that audition? The amount of torture we endure depends on what we...
Read MoreOften, when we first see our performance on screen, we may recoil in horror - that which is on the screen may not be that which was in our heads [or, not the performance we thought we were giving] - at this point, all we...
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