Othello
Here we go… How to clearly explain Shakespeare’s harrowing tragedy, Othello? Like most of Shakespeare’s plays, Othello can be summed up in either a sentence or a novel. I shall therefore do my utmost to...
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The First Thing To Do With Your Script
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...
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Setting Goals as an Actor in 2025
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That is, of course, unless you’re an actor staring down 2025 with little thought to what you’re going to do… December and January can be tough...
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How to Take Constructive Criticism
“How do I become a better actor?” is one of the all-time classic questions we field here at StageMilk. Every one of our team members has a slightly different answer—and if I had a...
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How to Recharge as an Actor
Actors are incredibly hard workers. They develop their craft for years, they pour time and effort into maintaining skills. The nature of the industry means that over 90% of actors in any given market...
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Side Hustles For Actors
So you have started acting. This is it! You’re gonna be a damn millionaire: starring in feature films, touring the world for press—hell yeah, you’re living the dream! Literally, the dream. Waking up from...
Acting Information and Resources
Shakespeare Poll…The Results are in
So we asked our visitors which is the best Shakespeare play and can you believe it, Hamlet has taken the crown. However, we were a little surprised to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream coming in...
Best Samuel Beckett Plays
A list of the five best Samuel Beckett Plays. Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Dublin in 1906 and Died in France in 1989. He spent the majority of his life in Paris and is...
Lessons from a Co-op
Co-ops… if I was writing this at any other moment in the process you’d have a very different account of my experience. There were highs, and of course, some colossal lows in which I considered,...
Best Tennessee Williams Plays
Tennessee Williams is an American Playwright. He is well known for some of his classic plays, listed below, and made a great contribution to American theatre. His plays are predominately set in Southern America and...
David Mamet (True and False)
A book review of David Mamet's True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor...
Acting Games
Whether you’re a drama teacher, director, or running a course, acting games are fantastic tools. They help actors get comfortable in an ensemble, warmed up and focused on the task at hand. Acting games also...
Pericles
Fantastical and majestic, Pericles is interwoven with comedy and tragedy. Labelled a romance due to this balance, it is not a play we often see in theatres around the world. Many infer that the play...
Acting Scenes
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Stagecraft
The fundamental quality of all acting is truth. We aspire to act in a way that is real and believable. This can mean acting small and naturalistic or conversely acting in a wild and unwieldy...