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Be Extraordinary And Accept Adversity | The Great Acting Blog

11.01.2020 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog "But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea It seems my last post, Be Comfortable Not Knowing, about anticipating adversity, has received some pushback for somehow offering...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actions Banish Boredom”

01.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I recently attended a seminar where the speaker delivered his speech in a reasonable fashion - he spoke clearly, with a decent amount of force and seemed to know what he was doing. The only trouble was, he was, well ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Dreaming Of A Rigorous Creative Task”

28.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is one of my favourite plays and I have longed to play the part of Lenny and have a crack at his magnificent speeches. Last night however, I had a dream in which I was to stage the play. But I...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Director’s Culture”

27.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

So often the director sets the tone for a production. His approach to the work becomes the approach of the company. If he shows seriousness, commitment and focus for example, then that becomes the dominant culture of the group. Other directors prefer to create a...

The Great Acting Blog: “In Movies, Not In Front Of Them”

10.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

I am always dumbfounded whenever I come across an actor who has failed to prepare properly for a scene. It's astonishing because it denotes a lack of interest in the project at hand and in acting generally. What else are we to conclude when you...

The Great Acting Blog: “Relax Until The Lights Come Up”

16.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 8 Comments

You can go over and over a performance in your head, you can practice a scene at home trying to compensate for the fact that the other actor isn't there, a million times. But does that help you? Or does it get you over-wrought, too...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why The Panic Set In, by Alfie Black”

02.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

Alfie Black is a London based actor. Throughout my career I have never really suffered any panic attacks whilst performing. That was of course until I filmed the pivotal interior scene from Phone Box Gun. Even though I originally met the writer/di...

The Great Acting Blog: “Preparation For He”

18.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 22 Comments

This week, I travelled to Dublin to start filming on Rouzbeh Rashidi's new feature film, He. I am currently working on a series of blogs about the shoot, which Rashidi and I will expand into a codified technique that can be employed by other direc...

The Great Acting Blog: “Prepare To Play”

08.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Sometimes the actor is employed to work on a production where there is no time to rehearse his scenes with his director and fellow cast members before performance. This situation is rare in the theatre and more common in films with a small budget...

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