How to use the Repetition Exercise in rehearsals
Repetition can be brought into the rehearsal room, by asking scene partners to repeat lines back to one another. This can blow all assumptions about how those lines ought to be said out of the water....
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How Tesco can make you a better actor: Repetition without repeating Repetition can be used all the time. There is a point where the need to repeat simply disappears. A Meisner actor doesn’t have to...
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How to find the emotion as an actor Emotion is a terrible Achilles heel for the actor. Feeling under pressure to produce an emotion is often the very reason why that emotion fails to happen. When an...
View ArticleB&Q, colour charts and the three core emotions
Meet the three core emotions In the paint section of B&Q there are hundreds upon hundreds of colours on wall charts with fancy names: African Earth, Bombay Sunset, Phoenix dream, Fresh Tomato....
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Where does emotion come from? Emotion is not a means to an end, it’s part of cause and effect. To prepare anger, you can’t think about anger as a thing that exists by itself. It is not a state to...
View ArticleDon’t kill the emotion by playing it
How not to kill the emotion by playing it Actors are petrified of the stage direction: ‘S/he falls into floods of tears’. The outcome has been prescribed by the writer, and the actor is thrown...
View ArticlePerfection is being messy
Perfection is being messy Wanting to be perfect as an actor, to nail the character, and play the scene well, is our aim. A perfect scene, though, requires you to actually embrace your lack of...
View ArticleHanging out on the beach can make you a better actor
Hanging out on the beach can make you a better actor Picture this. You’re on a sun lounger, with a book in your hands. The distant sound of a motorboat humming out at sea, the gentle lapping of the...
View ArticleHow Batman can improve your acting
How Batman can improve your acting (or why Actioning doesn’t work) Actioning is a commonly taught Stanislavski principle that doesn’t work as effectively as people seem to want actors to believe. The...
View ArticleCan’t get sad? Get angry!
Can’t Get Sad? Get Angry instead! Finding sadness hard in a scene, or your training? Then why not work for rage instead? All emotions are linked; they don’t exist as different solar systems, as we...
View ArticleHow to use the Repetition Exercise in rehearsals
Repetition can be brought into the rehearsal room, by asking scene partners to repeat lines back to one another. This can blow all assumptions about how those lines ought to be said out of the water....
View ArticleHow Tesco can make you a better actor
How Tesco can make you a better actor: Repetition without repeating Repetition can be used all the time. There is a point where the need to repeat simply disappears. A Meisner actor doesn’t have to...
View ArticleHow to find the emotion
How to find the emotion as an actor Emotion is a terrible Achilles heel for the actor. Feeling under pressure to produce an emotion is often the very reason why that emotion fails to happen. When an...
View ArticleB&Q, colour charts and the three core emotions
Meet the three core emotions In the paint section of B&Q there are hundreds upon hundreds of colours on wall charts with fancy names: African Earth, Bombay Sunset, Phoenix dream, Fresh Tomato....
View ArticleWhere does emotion come from?
Where does emotion come from? Emotion is not a means to an end, it’s part of cause and effect. To prepare anger, you can’t think about anger as a thing that exists by itself. It is not a state to...
View ArticleDon’t kill the emotion by playing it
How not to kill the emotion by playing it Actors are petrified of the stage direction: ‘S/he falls into floods of tears’. The outcome has been prescribed by the writer, and the actor is thrown...
View ArticlePerfection is being messy
Perfection is being messy Wanting to be perfect as an actor, to nail the character, and play the scene well, is our aim. A perfect scene, though, requires you to actually embrace your lack of...
View ArticleHanging out on the beach can make you a better actor
Hanging out on the beach can make you a better actor Picture this. You’re on a sun lounger, with a book in your hands. The distant sound of a motorboat humming out at sea, the gentle lapping of the...
View ArticleHow Batman can improve your acting
How Batman can improve your acting (or why Actioning doesn’t work) Actioning is a commonly taught Stanislavski principle that doesn’t work as effectively as people seem to want actors to believe. The...
View ArticleCan’t get sad? Get angry!
Can’t Get Sad? Get Angry instead! Finding sadness hard in a scene, or your training? Then why not work for rage instead? All emotions are linked; they don’t exist as different solar systems, as we...
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