Arguably the most academic category of StageMilk.com – this is where we delve deep into all the various acting methodologies out there. This is a resource you can visit time and time again, if you need some inspiration, looking for a new technique to try or stuck on a particular block in your acting. Slowly but surely, we’ll have covered every single acting method that’s out there. So stay tuned!
For actors, the phrase ‘Sense Memory’ can be confusing and occasionally maddening. It’s often misunderstood and taught incorrectly by well meaning teachers. What comes to mind for you when you hear ‘Sense Memory’? Is it...
What is it about working with heightened text that fills some actors with fear? Is it the departure from regular, everyday speech? The breadth of study and preparation it often requires? Perhaps it’s the fear...
Actors? Take a seat. Get comfy. Help yourself to donuts and coffee if you like. We need to have a talk. Nobody here is judging, and everything being said is coming from a place of...
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...
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...
Where on earth does time go? I’m typing this in 2025, and yet it feels like mere moments ago I was spiralling into existential dread during a script analysis class in 2020. How times have...
Depending on who you are, or who you ask, this question might come across as honest, curious or down-right ridiculous. “Is acting easy?” Can read as very reductive in the wrong context, as it would...
What’s the point of it all? Ever wonder that about a character in a script you’re reading? Why are they doing what they do, enduring tests and hardships and heartbreak with the odds stacked against...
There are countless stories—some of them mythical at this point—about actors who go the extra mile and stay in character. We think of Daniel Day-Lewis taking a musket to Thanksgiving, Nicholas Cage eating cockroaches. Forest...
Chances are, if you’ve ever found yourself in an acting class—anything from a one-off course to a three-year drama school degree—you will have encountered the concept of given circumstances. They are those fundamental questions we...
