auditioning Tag

The Great Acting Blog: “Preparing For Failure”

20.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Too often we prepare for failure. The purest example of this can be seen in the audition process - it takes so many auditions before actually landing a part. It involves many, many knock-backs, so that eventually we learn to dare not want anything too...

The Great Acting Blog: “Tilda Swinton Has Never Auditioned For A Role”

20.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Apart from for the Royal Shakespeare Company when she was first starting out, Tilda Swinton has never auditioned for a role. Never. All of those wonderful films for artists such as Derek Jarman, Bela Tarr and Jim Jarmusch, and she never auditioned. On her...

The Great Acting Blog: “Give To The Community And Be Part Of It’s Success”

31.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The audition process functions as a simple command and reward structure - do as you're told and hopefully you will be awarded the prize of work. It's essentially a straightforward, technical process. Auditions can be frustrating but you don't have to give much of yourself,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Work For Your Own Satisfaction”

01.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It is true that going on rounds and rounds of auditions is not necessarily the most productive use of the actor's time, however, the actor must accept auditioning as part of the actors' life (unless he forms his own theatre company that is). The a...