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The Great Acting Blog: “Some Words From Charles Bukowski….”

20.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 33 Comments

1. If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it's your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of existence. 2. The free soul is rare but you know it...

Essential Action – What Is It And Why Is It Important For The Scene?

09.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 38 Comments

Once we've answered the question; what is literally happening in the scene?, the next step is to determine what the essential action of the scene is, the action we are actually going to do in the scene. Note that the literal action in the scene, is...

The Great Acting Blog: “Acting Is Our Creativity”

06.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have." - Maya Angelou The flip-side of course, is that the less you use your creativity, the less of it you have. Acting was our calling but it continues to speak to us. It's...

The Great Acting Blog: “Know What You’re Doing – The Importance Of Technique”

26.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

You've always got to know what you're doing. That means having a concrete, controllable, repeatable acting technique which enables you to deliver the goods in any situation. It means understanding why you got the results you did and knowing how to change those things you...

Wise Words From Orson Welles | The Great Acting Blog

16.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog Welles' insights here are mainly centred on creativity and being an artist, along with a little bit of philosophy, ie; ways to think about our work. Here are a few wise words by him...

The Great Acting Blog: “Create, Don’t Re-Create”

05.08.2014 , Uncategorized , 1 Comment

In our work it's important to create afresh each time we do a scene, whether in rehearsal or in performance. The tendency is often to fall back onto a previous way of doing it, a way that has already worked, re-creating rather than creating. We...

The Great Acting Blog: “Create A Mental Ritual Before You Act The Scene…”

01.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

... This will enable you to organise your mind and your energy, and focus entirely on the task ahead, ensuring that everything you do works for your performance. This is all part of having a controllable technique that stands up under pressure and enables you to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Some Words From The Great Actor-Producer, John Cassavetes”

31.07.2014 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

For those who are worried that producing work would cost them their relentless focus on acting, that they would be spreading themselves too thin - here's some words of wisdom from one of the greatest actor-producers of them all, John Cassavetes. For those who don't...

The Great Acting Blog: “6 Directors To Change Your Thinking”

19.07.2014 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

In the spirit of creating your own mentor, the following are comments and insights by notable directors have been put together to inspire and open the mind, as it is a curse to become locked into the same routine way of thinking, leading to the...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Celebration Of The Imagination”

12.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The following are basically diverse statements, which suggest that, yes, the imagination is the source of our creativity, of creating something entirely new, but that it also affects how we perceive what is already in existence: those who work on their imaginations may perceive more...

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