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The Great Acting Blog: “Do What You Want To Do”

13.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

In Italian cinema during the 1950s, film actors' voices were dubbed with those of theatre actors. There was nothing wrong with the way they spoke, they were dubbed because film acting at that time was not considered to be respectable, and film actors were...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Culture Of Generosity And Creativity”

06.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Those in the cast who play politics and try to drag the people around them down in order to puff themselves up, are despicable, but unfortunately they are real. They can be handled however, if prepared. The trick is not to let these situations divert...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why Criticism Is Positive”

26.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

If a production was insipid or the actors incompetent, why pretend otherwise? We live in an age where we're supposed to be "positive", and criticism is seen as snarky and negative. But I see nothing wrong with intelligent, precise and genuine criticism. Infact, it is a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Collaborate With Actor-Artists To Make Your Work Stronger”

11.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

If you're trying to get a truly artistic project off the ground, then finding actors with a similar culture to your own, a similar outlook, a feel for a similar aesthetic, can be as important as technical ability. Certainly this is true if you want...

The Great Acting Blog: “Advancing The Needs Of Artist And Audience”

24.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I 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...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Ultimate Humiliation”

11.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Humiliation is kissing the ass of someone who has threatened us in order to please them. The most common example of this of course, is the employer, who says "unless you do a b and c, you're out". Humiliation kicks in when the threat is...

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...

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