Best Samuel Beckett Plays
A list of the best five Samuel Beckett Plays. Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Dublin in 1906 and Died in France in 1989.He spent the majority of his life in Paris and is considered...
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Lessons from a Co-op
Co-ops… if I was writing this at any other moment in the process you’d have a very different account of my experience. There were highs, and of course, some colossal lows in which I...
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How to Act Shakespeare
A step by step guide on how to act Shakespearean text....
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Monologues
A large range of Monologues for both men and women including monologues by Shakespeare and other great playwrights. ...
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Shakespeare Scenes
This is a list of the best Shakespeare scenes. This page is separated into three sections: male/female, male/male and female/female Shakespeare scenes. Click on a scene box to find out more information about that...
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Male Shakespeare Monologues
A comprehensive list of Shakespeare's Best Male Monologues. With full well punctuated text available....
Acting Information and Resources
Lessons from a Co-op
Co-ops… if I was writing this at any other moment in the process you’d have a very different account of my experience. There were highs, and of course, some colossal lows in which I considered,...
Best Tennessee Williams Plays
Tennessee Williams is an American Playwright. He is well known for some of his classic plays, listed below, and made a great contribution to American theatre. His plays are predominately set in Southern America and...
David Mamet (True and False) | Book Review
When you mention this book to actors, you tend to get a fairly similar response. Usually it’s somewhere between a grunt of annoyance and a sigh of despair that yet another actor is enduring such...
Acting Games
Whether you are a drama teacher, director running a course, acting games are a fantastic tool. They help students get comfortable, warmed up and focused. Most acting games also develop important skills required for acting...
Pericles
Fantastical and majestic, Pericles is interwoven with comedy and tragedy. Labelled a romance due to this balance, it is not a play we often see in theatres around the world. Many infer that the play...
Acting Scenes
This is a list of great acting scenes. It is separated into theatre and film and within each category it is further divided into male/male or male/female. Because of copyright we can’t put the actual text on...
Stagecraft
The fundamental quality of all acting is truth. We aspire to act in a way that is real and believable. This can mean acting small and naturalistic or conversely acting in a wild and unwieldy...
Relieving Stress
Acting and stress go hand in hand. Actors stress about everything—whether the audience is liking their performance, whether that agent yawning in the front row hates them, whether that great conversation with the director will...
Twelfth Night
Alternative Title: What You Will Play Synopsis So we’re in Illyria. Don’t go searching through those faded geography class memories; Illyria is a Shakespearean invention. The play begins with Duke Orsino, the Duke of Illyria,...