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The Great Acting Blog: “The Director Must Allow The Actor To Rebel”

30.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Following on from yesterday's post about how acting is a form of rebellion, we can now see why the creative decision-making for a performance must finally rest with the actor himself and not with the director. Working on a script or simply improvising, the needs of...

The Great Acting Blog: “Simple Cinema Is The Actor’s Friend’

18.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

This week, I had the sheer joy of watching not one, but TWO Hong Song Soo pictures at the theatre. Nobody's Daughter Haewon was the first of his films to ever receive a UK theatrical release. The double wammy happened because he made two films this year, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “How The Director Sets The Actor Free”

26.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

To follow on from yesterday's post, I wanted to expand a little bit on the notion of giving the actor space to create. As a general rule, I believe the primary task of the director is to assist the actors in expressing the writer's intentions*, and...