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The Power of Voice for Actors

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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...

How to Audition for Vikings

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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...

Iambic Pentameter for Actors

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“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...

What is Dramaturgy?

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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...