Best Bertolt Brecht Plays
Bertolt Brecht is one of the great pioneers of modern theatre. He was a poet, playwright and director. He saw theatre as a tool for change and created a unique form of theatre that’s goal...
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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...
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What is Subtext in Acting?
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...
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Best Romantic Comedies for Actors
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...
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How to Work Internationally as an Actor
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...
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Best Shakespeare Villains
Hero, villain. White-hat, black-hat. Goodie, baddie. When it comes to the creation of compelling protagonists and antagonists, nobody did it quite like William Shakespeare. Shakespeare understood that a story is only as good as...
Acting Information and Resources
Hamlet
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Good Jobs for Actors
The Dilemma What on earth can an actor do to make money? Certainly not acting. Too negative? Well: look what you’re currently reading. If you were merely befuddled by the title and are struggling to...
Best Shakespeare Sonnets
Here is a list of my favourite Shakespeare sonnets. As is often the case with these ‘best of’ lists, the audacious title is backed by little more than a one man’s love for Shakespeare. These...
Theatre in Education
I recently concluded a six week primary school musical tour, and I survived… The words theatre in education are often followed by a long sigh. Kids, long days and over the top acting aren’t the...
And then you walk away…(Bryan Cranston)
Some really eye opening advice from one of the best actors on TV at the moment, Bryan Cranston. Let us know your thoughts below…...
Best Acting Books Ever (Poll Results)
So here are the results of our latest poll: Respect for acting (Uta Hagen) (34%) An Actor Prepares (Konstantin Stanislavki) (29%) The Actor and the Target (Declan Donnelan) (18%) No Acting Please (Eric Morris) (11%)...
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...
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...