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Acting for Film

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Acting for film is the holy grail. Where theatre is the soul of acting and its origin story in so many senses, film – especially feature film – is where the gold standard of performance...

What is Narrative Structure?

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What do Lord of the Rings, Kramer vs Kramer, The Castle and La La Land have in common? Narrative structure. In fact you can think about pretty much any film, television show, play or conceptual...

A Guide to Eyelines

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Acting, in theory, is a walk in the park. Like any abstract art, quite often the layman looks at it and goes ‘I could do that!’ One of the giant, tiny, vital, overlooked aspects of...

The Best Plays of Lynn Nottage

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Lynn Nottage, born in Brooklyn in the sixties has become one of the most prominent playwrights of her generation. She focuses her attention on the marginalized groups in society, a topic given extra weight in...

The Best Plays of August Strindberg

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The Yin to Henrik Ibsen’s Yang, August Strindberg is one of the greatest playwrights of all time. A contemporary to Chekhov and Ibsen, Strindberg offered something totally different to both of those great writers. Dreams,...

The Best Plays of Aphra Behn

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Aphra Behn is one of the most extraordinary playwrights in history. A mystery, wrapped in an enigma, drenched in poetry and social commentary. A spy during the Dutch-Anglo war, a former prisoner and the first...

How to be More Believable

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This is a question I get asked a lot ‘how can I be more believable, more truthful in my acting?’ The answer is simple and none said it better than that great sage of 90’s...