Buckle up, friends: this one’s a biggie. In this article, we’re talking about the year that lies ahead, and everything you can put towards being an actor in 2024. With most people winding down...
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...
Words unspoken. Meaningful silences. Talking around the subject. In all of human interaction, subtext can be found wherever we need to convey our thoughts and feelings but don’t want to come right out and...
Romantic Comedies. Some people absolutely love them and herald performances by some of the greatest actors of all time as the focal point of their value. Other people completely despise them as vacuous, lowest...
So you wanna follow those thousands of actors before you, pack your life into a suitcase, jump on a bus/boat/plane and go international to really take your acting career to the next level? Love...
The Merchant of Venice is a controversial, problematic Shakespeare play. That said, it features some of Shakespeare’s finest monologues. Whether it’s the biting Shylock, or the melancholy Antonio, or the graceful Portia, The Merchant of...
This sonnet is one of the most loved Shakespeare sonnets. It is a simple love sonnets, that doesn’t have much of the anxiety found in sonnets like 27 and 129. You see the poet’s passion...
Much Ado About Nothing is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. Thought to be written between 1598 and 1599, this play has everything we demand from a Shakespearean comedy: wit, deception and plenty of romance....
You dream in iambic pentameter, celebrate the memorial of River Phoenix with more fervour than Christmas, and know your Aristophanes from your Agathon, so what would be more perfect than a career as an actor?...
A headshot is potentially the most important tool in your acting kit, arguably even more so than your resume and your education. If your headshot betrays you, it won’t matter if you’ve been to the...
To be or not to… Um. Let me think… But no, there is no time to stop and think, there’s an audience watching, waiting, judging! Luckily, you’d already read Stagemilk’s handy article on what to...
Looking for a kick-ass Shakespeare monologue? Look no further...
The term gets thrown around fairly loosely, so we’re going to break down what are ‘problem plays’, and what does that mean for you as an actor? Good actors work hard at everything they do,...
How hard can it be? You practice acting natural most of your life, so it should come – wait for it – naturally! But that elusive naturalism in your performance is a bit like breathing....
I have recently become obsessed with Shakespeare’s sonnets. One that I particularly love is sonnet 27. It’s not one of the most well known of Shakespeare’s sonnets, but I think it’s as poignant as ever....
