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How to Improve at Taking Direction

Written by

Andrew Hearle on November, 17th 2022

Recently, I was working with a director and, if I’m honest with you, I was struggling. No matter what I tried in my performance, I wasn’t able to fully integrate their direction. If you can’t...

Come Back to Rehearsal Improved

Written by

Andrew Hearle on May, 30th 2021

Acting Tips

Every time you work on a scene you need to come back improved. Directors love actors that move the rehearsal forward, not back....

Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 2)

Written by

Andrew Hearle on April, 16th 2020

Monologues Unpacked

This is the first of Hamlet’s 7 soliloquies and our initial glimpse inside the psyche of this troubled man. Dramaturgically this monologue serves to reveal Hamlet’s melancholy, and the root of his suffering. Here we...

Is acting just about confidence?

Written by

Andrew Hearle on October, 9th 2019

Acting Tips

This month we’ve been exploring the work of Anthony Meindl in StageMilk Drama Club. Anthony calls his process the ”non-method” way of acting, emphasising that his process uses no substitutions, sense memory, or repetition. So...