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The Great Acting Blog: “5 Great Artists On Independence And Disobedience”

26.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Think for yourself, have the strength to draw your own conclusions, maintain your independence in a world which increasingly tries to tame us. Stand your ground, never compromise, act with integrity. “The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need To Be So Much More”

01.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 30 Comments

Doing research, I am struck by how, over the last couple of generations or so, so few actors offer insights about acting. Most of the great statements and key texts on acting have come from directors and playwrights and teachers. There is Simon Callow of...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Desire To Be Great”

19.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Chuck Bowen, in a recent piece in Keyframe Daily, said that Leonardo Di Caprio, despite his strivings in recent years, was someone "auditioning for the role of Great Actor", he was "not quite" there. Although I haven't seen The Wolf Of Wall Street yet, I...

5 Must-See Screen Performances | The Great Acting Blog

07.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1278"] *Per Oscarsson in Sult [Hunger].[/caption] I chose this five because I believe that watching them invites us to question our self-imposed limitations of what acting can be, and inspire us to re-draw those limitations. Each performance shows that, through acting, we can...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Acting Could Be – I Review My Life In Pieces By Simon Callow”

19.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 17 Comments

I stumbled, some years ago, upon Simon Callow's Being An Actor, an autobiography of his first nine years as a professional actor. It revolutionised how I understood my own experience as an actor, leading to a comprehensive re-think about my approach to building a body...

The Great Acting Blog: “Five Great Actors On Acting”

09.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

These quotes don't offer any easy inspiration but there is a truth in them, even if that truth is sometimes opaque or requires thinking about over time. What they allow us to infer is important, for example, Delon appears to be saying something personal, and...

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The Great Acting Blog: “5 Great Artists On Independence And Disobedience”

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need To Be So Much More”

The Great Acting Blog: “The Desire To Be Great”

5 Must-See Screen Performances | The Great Acting Blog

The Great Acting Blog: “What Acting Could Be – I Review My Life In Pieces By Simon Callow”

The Great Acting Blog: “Five Great Actors On Acting”

The Great Acting Blog: “Why Charles Laughton Is An Example To All Of Us”

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting”

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need To Reclaim Acting – Lessons From EA Dupont’s Piccadilly”

The Great Acting Blog: “A Beautiful Object”