Jenny Landreth in her book Break A Leg opens our eyes to amateur-dramatics and shows us a vibrant world that is a crucial part of our culture. In Britain today there are hundreds of thousands of people involved in Am Dram from classic productions to panto to modern...
When she was 8 years old she would get chased like a dogs hunting prey by white kids who would throw rocks, bricks, batteries and anything else their eyes spied on and screamed racial hatred at her. And when reaching home her mother would warn her not to come back...
In a previous video we spoke about why all actors should not only be practicing their craft each day but deliberately practicing as well as mentioned by Anders Ericsson in his book Peak. If you haven’t seen it already then click on the link below. I mentioned that...
Gielgud was a man of the theatre. He even said the theatre has been his universe. He was useless at almost everything except where the theatre was concerned. He felt useless unless he had a job, but when he was working he was at ease with himself. To work in the...
Why can’t actors get roles? That’s a question that is well worth discussing. To answer it there are myriad of components that can affect why an actor doesn’t clinch the role: Whether it’s because of their lack of experience; Not having the right look; Being...
He had millions sympathise with him when he played a stone cold killer for almost ten years as he became part of the American family. Everyone expected him to act many more years, and many more characters, each one subtly reshaping the working class hero he’d...
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