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The Great Acting Blog: “Overcoming Post-Holiday Strangeness – Motivate By Degrees”

03.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

The transition from the holiday period into the swing of work for the new year, can be very strange. We want to get back into our old routine, we want our workload to increase to normal levels and we want to return to our previous...

The Great Acting Blog: “An Acting Career Has Multiple Destinations”

02.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

An acting career is not about a moment, or a judgement. It's not about "making it" by a certain age. Our careers rarely unfold in the way that we thought they would. They rarely move along as quickly as we had hoped, our progress is rarely...

The Great Acting Blog: “Where Does This Fear Of Independence Come From?”

01.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Buster Keaton believed that the locus of artistic control in film should be with the performer. His style of long shots and long takes, was largely developed in order to give his performance as much freedom as possible, and to draw attention to his physical...

The Great Acting Blog: “Robert De Niro – You’re Always Lucky”

31.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

His myth was created during that run of films with Martin Scorsese in the 1970s, and augmented by Godfather Part II and later, Once Upon A Time In America. By the time he did Goodfellas in 1990, he was a fully fledged movie star. For...

The Great Acting Blog: As we close out the year…

30.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

....some of us may reflect and wonder why we didn't accomplish more. Each of us will have our own answer to this question. But next year I'm going to do more. ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Destroy Career Ambivalence”

29.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Truly Great Acting”

28.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

In 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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Theatre Is A Secret Garden No More”

27.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 Comments

I 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...

Ralph Fiennes’ Acting Advice | The Great Acting Blog

26.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Embed 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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Anyone Can Have A Good Year”

25.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Anyone can have a good year. Anyone can have a good couple of years. Question is: can you keep improving year after year after year? Subscribe to The Great Acting Blog ...