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The Great Acting Blog: “Define An Aesthetic”

13.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 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: “Be An Explorer”

03.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

A few years back, I wrote and produced a short film. It wasn't a conventional film, it was art house, minimal, exploring the minutiae of human behaviour and while we were making it I took a lot of flak from cast and crew. They didn't...

The Great Acting Blog: “David Mamet Directs”

02.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQiGspS6rVg I stumbled upon this old, 1980 Creative Arts Television production about David Mamet rehearsing two of his plays, Dark Pony and Reunion, at The Circle Repertory Theatre in New York City. It's like drama school in 30 minutes, not to mention fascinating in it's own...

The Great Acting Blog: “Achieve Something Extraordinary”

13.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 28 Comments

If you have no conception of yourself as an artist, if you have no vision of the results you want, if you're not working to please yourself, then you must be unhappy. You're whole life is about trying to satisfy other people in order to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Notes On A New Theatre”

13.05.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

This week I went to look at a venue which I may be able to turn into a theatre. I have been thinking about starting my own theatre for many years, but the stars had needed to be in a certain alignment for it to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Notes On A New Theatre”

01.05.2013 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] This week I went to look at a venue which I may be able to turn into a theatre. I have been thinking about starting my own theatre for many years, but the stars had needed to be in a certain alignment for...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Is Going On Here?”

10.04.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Being an actor is about being a student of human behaviour. Actors spend a great deal of their lives analysing scripts, or, to put it another way, they spend a great deal of their lives trying to work-out just what the hell is going on....

The Great Acting Blog: “The Power Of Idealism – Part 2”

27.03.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Following on from my piece last week on Idealism, I wanted to define better what I thought idealism actually was, and came up with the following; Idealism is belief in an idea, which goes beyond career, or accolade, or material gain, and it is...

The Great Acting Blog: “Use Your Imagination”

13.03.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Work on Noirish Project continues apace...

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting In Noirish Project”

06.03.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] As many of you probably already know, filming began on Noirish Project recently, and, generally, it went very smoothly. We all had worked together before, and we all wanted to work on this material, which created, despite the early start on a cold...

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The Great Acting Blog: “Define An Aesthetic”

The Great Acting Blog: “Be An Explorer”

The Great Acting Blog: “David Mamet Directs”

The Great Acting Blog: “Achieve Something Extraordinary”

The Great Acting Blog: “Notes On A New Theatre”

The Great Acting Blog: “Notes On A New Theatre”

The Great Acting Blog: “What Is Going On Here?”

The Great Acting Blog: “The Power Of Idealism – Part 2”

The Great Acting Blog: “Use Your Imagination”

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting In Noirish Project”