Should I Study Acting in the UK?
So, you’ve got the acting bug and now you’re looking for a place to go to drama school. There are so many different choices, at home and abroad. Whilst doing your research you’ve noticed that...
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How To Make A Web Series
Just like the first time you’re faced with performing a full length Shakespeare, making your own web series can seem overwhelming in the beginning. But as with any acting role, there’s nothing more to it...
Coriolanus
Coriolanus is a lesser known Shakespearean tragedy that tackles such themes as power, class, pride, and honour. It also has a whole truckload of sword fights to boot. Believed to have been written sometime between...
Coriolanus Monologue (Act 3, Scene 3)
Let’s take a look at what is most likely Coriolanus’ most famous speech. This is a dramatic speech and is fantastic for auditions as it allows the actor to go into heightened emotions and stakes...
Hamlet Monologue (Act 3, Scene 2)
Sometimes it feels like Shakespeare was just doing an experiment in Hamlet, trying to identify ‘how much is it possible for an actor to do in one role?’. This soliloquy, and this scene, Act 3...
Prince Hal Monologue (Act 1, Scene 2)
A lot of people overlook Prince Hal as a character, and over the Henriad as a group of plays. They’re revered, but perhaps only in small circles. Just like the very character we’ll be looking...
Hamlet Monologue (Act 3, Scene 3)
Now he might do it. Now he might do it! After three and a half acts of Hamlet not doing it, (it being avenging the murder of his Father and generally being the revenge hero...
Hamlet Monologue (Act 1 Scene 5)
You know how sometimes you’re having a bad day, you miss the bus, spill coffee on yourself, forget to reply to an important email, and the ghost of a dead family member appears and speaks...
Clarence Monologue (Act 1 Scene 4)
If ever there was a time to trust your gut, for Clarence – this was the moment. We’re looking at Richard the Third, Act 1, Scene 4. Clarence is recounting a nightmare to Brackenbury about...
Dogberry Monologue (Act 4 Scene 2)
Like so many plays of days gone by, be they tragedy or comedy, they all need some sort of clown, and one my favourite clowns ever is Dogberry from Much Ado About Nothing. Quite often...