A grab-bag of my interests: contemporary theatre, creativity, plus life and learning online
Productions I've seen, directed, produced or been in. Theatre and film performance remain at the hub of my creative world.
Read the whole post by Travis Bedard from Cambiare Productions in Austin in the US. It was focussed on writers, but holds equally for all artists and creatives in the theatre … or elsewhere.
Everyone wants a comfortable job at a comfortable salary at a nurturing artistic home. And a unicorn. Too bad.
Quick Thoughts on [...]
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Read the whole article from Andrew Utter at the Mother of Invention Acting School blog. The post is a review of a new book on acting by Howard Fine: Fine on Acting – A Vision of the Craft.
* “Your central responsibility as actors is to affect and to be affected by, that is your job. [...]
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There’s a Twitter discussion happening right now hashtagged #artsed . The hashtag acts as a search key for tweets that have anything to do with arts education, but this particular thread of the discussion is focussing on the issue of professional training for artists – more particularly theatre artists, and especially actors. [...]
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A delightful little movie blooper reel out of the 1936 movie archives. Nothing much changes … not even the way actors react to a lines breakdown. Enjoy!
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I’m not all that keen on the name of this handy little iPhone app: ‘Hollywood Helper – Broadway Buddy’ – yuk! ‘Lines Coach’ is plain, but it might well have served for an application that helps you to learn lines without your script, and which also understands how most actors work with pencil and [...]
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My last post here investigated the first 10 seasons of Queensland Theatre Company between 1970 and 1979. This post looks at the plays from the past 10 seasons. I’ve used the same breakdown in assessing the repertoire, i.e., organised my siftings using assigned historical and geographical categories: UK/Ireland; Australian; US; Other. Plays can find themselves [...]
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