Genre for Actors
Want to learn everything there is about genre as an actor? Fill in the blank at the end of this excerpt: INT. BATHROOM – NIGHT SALLY steps into the pristine, white bathroom of her inner-city...
Want to learn everything there is about genre as an actor? Fill in the blank at the end of this excerpt: INT. BATHROOM – NIGHT SALLY steps into the pristine, white bathroom of her inner-city...
It’s that time of year again… All over the world, actors are beginning their prep for a drama school audition that may well change the course of their careers—hell, their entire lives. And while we...
Are you starting out on your acting journey? Are you looking for material to help you kick this whole thing off? Then you’ve come to the right place: a page full of beginner scripts tailor-written...
The voice is one hell of an instrument. I mean, how many guitars can do a Scottish accent, or a perfect recreation of Gollum’s eerie tones? There’s nothing else on the planet quite like it....
Actors, be they emerging, established or even aspiring, tend to carry anxiety around money and finance. It’s not hard to see why, given the job’s famous lack of any security. And it’s particularly true for...
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...