Tag: making work
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Don’t Just Be Reasonable: How to Integrate Disabled Performers
Don’t just be “reasonable” says Amelia Cavallo, dissecting the steps you need to consider to create truly inclusive work on stage [In the Equalities Act] there is one sticky phrase, which is “reasonable accommodation”… The problem with this phrase is that there is nothing specific about what is considered reasonable and what isn’t. This makes…
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How to Be Creative When You’re Not in Work
Deal with the down time and rediscover your creativity with our guide on how to be creative when you’re not in work. Being a performer guarantees one thing: total uncertainty. It’s hard to know when the next job is coming your way, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t still the creative and passionate performer you…
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Carrie Hope Fletcher on Crafting a Cross-Platform Career
Carrie Hope Fletcher on using YouTube to help forge a career in musical theatre, and working beyond your casting type It’s a horrible truth in the life of an actor that you never know what’s next. I might do my next job and then not work again for another four years. That’s just how it works. But…
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An Actor’s Guide To Producing Your Own Audio Play
Katie Redford demystifies the process of creating your own stories via the medium of audio! Voices, sound effects and your imagination can take you anywhere. For instance, I’ve just written a play about a kitchen appliance – just a normal guy in a normal world. Apart from the fact that he’s a whisk. #andwhat Katie…
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How Writing Can Help With Your Acting
How embracing his inner writer helped Kieran Knowles overcome his lack of representation as an actor… …with a group of friends, and fellow graduates we started to toss about the idea of writing a play where we could each play a dynamic human, with backstories and hopes, dreams, wishes and objectives, just as we’d trained…
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How to Develop a Comedy Persona
Where actors are required to put on a new character with every role, performing standup is all about developing a single consistent ‘persona’ to adopt and grow each time you take to the stage. Developing your comedy persona is the lynchpin to becoming a good comedian. In short, it is learning how to be you…
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Laban Character Analysis with Sarah Perry
An introduction to the potential benefits of Laban Movement Analysis for actors We are all a body in a space moving with effort from shape to shape. Sarah Perry At our recent Open House, Sarah Perry hosted a session on character analysis, using Laban. Laban Movement Analysis is a theoretical framework using movement, specifically observing how…
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Acting Techniques: Lecoq with Sam Hardie
Starting out with Lecoq as an actor One of the great techniques for actors, Jacques Lecoq’s method focuses on physicality and movement. Lecoq himself believed in the importance of freedom and creativity from his students, giving an actor the confidence to creatively express themselves, rather than being bogged down by stringent rules. With notable students…
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Directing Your Own Work with Paines Plough
Paines Plough’s Joint Artistic Director James Grieve talks to Spotlight about moving from acting to directing – and how important it is to make your own work! James Grieve is the Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough (“PP”) alongside George Perrin. He started out as an actor before moving over to directing, and as a result, James had a lot…
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Keeping Busy Outside of Acting
Domenique Fragale trained at Arts Educational Schools and recently moved to the United States to work in Los Angeles. Here, she discusses how actors can keep mentally and physically healthy outside of work. It’s easy to let your mind work in over drive and become swamped in anxiousness as to when that next audition or acting job will come (believe…