poetic acting Tag

The Great Acting Blog: “Truly Creative Acting”

05.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate." Elia Kazan Kazan has been an important director for me not only because of his films but also because he unearthed a certain Mr Brando, who...

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting In Noirish Project”

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] As many of you probably already know, filming began on Noirish Project recently, and, generally, it went very smoothly. We all had worked together before, and we all wanted to work on this material, which created, despite the early start on a cold...

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting”

28.11.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 31 Comments

Poetic acting is expressive but not expository, it is intense but with a sense of ease, it's minimal, but most importantly, it seeks to express something in-the-moment, but which cannot always be explained away. On a practical level, the actor com...

Peter Mullan In My Name Is Joe – Acting Is Poetry | The Great Acting Blog

30.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 30 Comments

Once in a blue moon a performance comes along which is so excellent it forces me to completely re-examine what it is I'm doing in my own work, and Peter Mullan's in My Name Is Joe is one such performance. Mullan plays Joe Kavanagh, a...

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