The Power of Voice for Actors
In Peter Yates’ excellent 1983 film The Dresser—perhaps one of the best films about the theatre ever made—Albert Finney delivers an iconic, three word line that sums up everything you need to know about the...
In Peter Yates’ excellent 1983 film The Dresser—perhaps one of the best films about the theatre ever made—Albert Finney delivers an iconic, three word line that sums up everything you need to know about the...
Oh man, is there anything more gripping than Fever Ray’s “If I Had a Heart” thrumming along to scenes of longships battling furious wind and waves, a great heathen horde spilling onto the shores of...
You’ve probably heard the old saying that good acting is all about reacting. And it’s not untrue: you are at your best as a performer when you communicate with others in a scene. However, this...
You may have noticed here at StageMilk that many of our articles are titled with questions: “Is acting easy?” “How to act drunk?” “Should I stay in character?” That’s because we like to try and...
Abandon all hope ye who enter here… That’s certainly how it can feel to label (or be labelled) a “bad actor”. There’s something so damning, so final about the term that makes it seem like...
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” “Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?” “Awake, arise or be forever fallen.” Iambic pentameter has flavoured some of the greatest writing in the history...
When I took my first leap into the great unknown of independent theatre, the teams usually consisted of the following: a director, a designer, the cast, a stage manager and a mysterious fifth person… They’d...
It’s a good question to ask. It’s an interesting question, for that matter. The funny thing about a question like “What age do people go to drama school?” is that everybody has an immediate answer...
“Yeah, that last take was fine … but can you loosen it up, a bit?” It’s a bummer of a note to get, isn’t it? Worse still is when the note comes from within: the...
For a whole lot of people making not a whole lot of money, actors are strangely obsessed with the lovely, horrible stuff. To some, it’s a symbol of status; to others, money signals a degree...