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The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Wait For Permission”

05.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Always strange when actors who are out of work say they're writing scripts in order to stay busy. Nobody gave them permission to write scripts but they do so anyway. Yet, when it comes to acting they feel that they need to wait to be...

The Great Acting Blog: “Lets Give Ourselves A Pat On The Back”

04.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes we can get so caught up in the minutiae of day to day tasks that we can no longer see the woods from the trees. We get so wrapped up in the workload of getting a production off the ground or in the endless...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Lack Of Confidence?”

03.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 32 Comments

The debate about how much space a director should give to an actor within a production rages on. Some say that the actor should do whatever the hell the director tells them to do while others think that manipulation is direction. One thing is certain...

The Great Acting Blog: “Act With Heart”

02.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

In his book My Life In Pieces, Simon Callow tells us that theatre audiences of 1750 were not quite as sedate as their contemporary ancestors. He says they could make: "the most extreme football hooligans seem like pussycats". And: "at the slightest provocation denizens of the pit would...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Knowing Our Limitations Leads To Progress”

01.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We work our little cotton socks off to achieve one goal, then we go and up the ante by deciding that, next time, we will try to accomplish something a little bit harder. As we sketch out a plan to achieve this next conquest, we...

The Great Acting Blog: “Make Some Noise About Actors You Admire”

30.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

It seems some performances are praised to the rafters by the mainstream press, when often I think the acting in question is false and self-conscious. Other performances however, are a model of truth and simplicity and generosity, and yet are almost universally ignored. It...

The Great Acting Blog: “Powerful Storytelling”

29.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Mauro Bolognini's 1963 film La Curruzione is the fabulous story about Stefano Mattoli, played by Jacques Perrin. At the start of the film, we see Stefano graduate from college before journeying back to his family home in order to get permission from his father to start...

The Great Acting Blog: “Creativity Mistakes Help Us Grow”

28.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

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The Great Acting Blog: “Who Are The Top Five People You Want To Work With”

27.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I find answering this question very useful indeed, because it helps to refresh my sense of direction and what I am about. It can also lend coherence to chaos. Plus it's fun. Who are the top five people you want to work with? How quickly are you...

The Great Acting Blog: “How The Director Sets The Actor Free”

26.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

To follow on from yesterday's post, I wanted to expand a little bit on the notion of giving the actor space to create. As a general rule, I believe the primary task of the director is to assist the actors in expressing the writer's intentions*, and...

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