The Great Acting Blog

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting”

28.11.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 174 Comments

Poetic acting is expressive but not expository, it is intense but with a sense of ease, it's minimal, but most importantly, it seeks to express something in-the-moment, but which cannot always be explained away. On a practical level, the actor com...

The Great Acting Blog: “Non-Actors, Employee-Actors, & Artist-Actors”

14.11.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

“with professional actors they have an imaginary in between you and them. In other words they have some model in their minds about how to act, or how someone did it before, or some techniques, visual or physical, they can use...

The Great Acting Blog: “There Is No Escape From The Terrors Of The Mind”

07.11.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

This week, I journeyed to Cork City, to attend a screening of HE (the new feature film by Rouzbeh Rashidi, and where I play the lead role), which was wonderfully hosted by The Guesthouse. Rouzbeh and I participated in a Q & A session after...

The Great Acting Blog: “Directing Actors”

31.10.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Noirish Project continues apace, and I will very soon begin rehearsals with the actors. I've not directed actors within a rehearsal context for awhile, although, as an actor myself, I like to think I have an idea about what is useful direction for...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actor As Individual Creative Artist”

17.10.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

The notion of the actor as an individual creative artist, is a notion I often advocate on this blog. That is; the actor taking responsibility for his work, defining an aesthetic, not “standing around in the dark, hoping to be picked”. The benefits...

The Great Acting Blog: “A New Body For A Lost Soul”

10.10.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 46 Comments

“Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of personal video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Performance In Your Head Doesn’t Count”

03.10.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Will It Stop Raining In Summer is now complete It's always a surprise when I first see my own performance on screen, because I had the image in my mind of what I thought it was, and then, upon seeing the film, I see what...

The Great Acting Blog: “Keeping Your Independence”

26.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Gielgud as Hamlet "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Ot take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...

The Great Acting Blog: “Mindboggling – Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler”

19.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1,469 Comments

Tony Curtis plays Albert DeSalvo, who is picked up by the cops on a breaking and entering charge, but when the judge rules Albert is not of his right mind, he is institutionalised where psychiatrists diagnose him with a multiple personality disord...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Actor’s Life Should Be A Challenge”

12.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

A challenge is a thing which is difficult but doable, it must be within your control to do it – ie; if you knuckle down and apply your skills and apply the tools at your disposal, then, mixed with a bit of hard graft, you...

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