For those who don’t know who Oliver Reed was…
He was a planet, that’s what he was, some people in acting have their own gravitational pull, one fo the best actors on stage and in film of his generation, unfortunately his vices killed him (a hard core alcoholic) . he is worth you investigation, Oliver reed is not only an incredible actor but also, […]
Orson Welles on cold reading
One could listen to Orson tell stories all day long. Ιn this one he talks about the phenomenon of “cold reading”, its not the technique of cold reading for auditions, but cold reading that fortune (fake) tellers use to scam their victims…
AUDITION AND OTHER SCARY STUFF
Michael Shurtleff, the man who discovered Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, and many others, writes in his classic book “Audition”: “[…] it is possible for the auditioner to get himself into such a healthy frame of mind that he enjoys auditioning. It gives him a chance to show his stuff, to practice his craft, to give himself […]
ONE LINERS Part 3
“The capacity to take infinite pains is the most intelligent definition of genius.” This is not an easy job, actually let me rephrase that, this in not an easy art from and the environment sucks…most of the time the director is crazy, the partner is a narcissist or plain unprofessional, the director is a control […]
ONE LINERS Part 2
This time lets go back to even older times still ine the “modern acting” era but before the 1920’s, keep reminding yourself that one-liners hold in them a natural truth or better yet a true observation, but they are truisms, also some might repeat, this is because we might find them in different teachers, why […]
ONE LINERS Part 1
Wynn Handman, Meisner’s right hand (Hand-man — See what happened right there? ) and protégé for many years (if you want to learn more about this see the documentary “it takes a lunatic”) used to say in interviews that Meisner was pretty good at giving one-liners (our Greek: tsitata) to his students, you know the […]
Vakhtangov on Scene Analysis
“Vakhtangov invited us for the next rehearsal to rewrite our role so that the left side of the page was the author’s text, and the right side – a blank sheet of paper. The first rehearsal he devoted to dissecting the images [characters] in the play. I played the central role of Henry, a young […]
A bit of history
Nikolay Vasilyevich Demidov’s third book “The Art of Living on Stage” is a culmination of his forty years of theatrical and pedagogical work. Initially conceived as a single book, Demidov’s work expanded into a planned series of five books. Before his death in 1953, he completed three of these books, while the remaining two existed […]
THE FOUR VIRTUES: VIRTUE NUMBER TWO
By Cameron Thor and Kimon Fioretos Completeness of Action Completeness of Action invites the actor to become thorough, thoughtful, and resolved in their body and their body’s relationship to its surroundings. To master both the root and boundary of movement. In the character’s physical life, the actor will apply “complete” both as an adjective: “having no […]
Irene Worth to students of an acting class
