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...
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Being an Actor in 2024
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...
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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...
Acting Information and Resources
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 a fantastic tool. They help students get comfortable, warmed up and focused. Acting games also develop important skills required for acting and...
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...
Relieving Stress as an Actor
Feeling Stressed...
Twelfth Night
Alternative Title: What You Will Play Synopsis So we’re in Illyria. Don’t go searching through those faded geography class memories; Illyria is a Shakespearean invention. The play begins with Duke Orsino, the Duke of Illyria,...