Tag: acting

  • Dealing with a Bad Performance

    Dealing with a Bad Performance

    Tahlia Norrish shares her experience of giving a bad performance and the valuable lessons she learnt. A blow to our ego can be tough, especially when it’s resulted from coming up short in our craft. It can seem so enticing to make excuses or throw in the towel completely, but we can choose to profit…

  • Playing Older, Playing Younger

    Playing Older, Playing Younger

    Tom Baker offers tips and things to consider when playing a role significantly older or younger than you are. Inhabiting a role of a different age to your own is no different from playing a character whose situation, background, provenance, or accent differs from yours Believe it or not, most of the girls in Derry Girls aren’t…