• Playwrights You Should Read

    Updated: 2010-08-29 15:00:07
    Today is my wedding day, I won’t be blogging as normal until 20th September. Instead, I’ve written some blogs in advance to make sure you have a steady stream of blogs whilst I get wed and go away on my honeymoon. Today’s blog is short but I’d like to offer you the chance to catch [...]

  • Being Off Book

    Updated: 2010-08-26 16:00:57
    If you work or train with me, you’ll know I do things differently. Not to be controversial but because it’s more effective. One of the main ways that I differ is that I insist that the actors come to the first day of rehearsal with lines learned, not generally, not quite well, so they can [...]

  • Casting for “The Haunting” a live haunted house!

    Updated: 2010-08-17 23:55:48
    On Saturday August 21st the Dearing’s will be teaming up with Jess Acridge to cast for “The Haunting” a live Haunted House. This is the newest and best Haunted House in the State of Arizona! Casting: 18+, All talent, Looks and Genders *Auditions are by appointment only!* To Submit: Phone:(480)313-9901 Email: Dearingstudio@cox.net Web: http://dearingstudio.com/ For more information: http://dearingstudio.com/ or http://www.halloweenexpressaz.com/2009_phoenix_haunted_house_intro_the_Haunt.html “With The [...]

  • Top Books on Acting

    Updated: 2010-08-17 12:13:55
    Most books on acting are complete nonsense, these are the books that I personally recommend: True and False -David Mamet Practical Handbook for the Actor – Bruder et Al. Action – The Actor’s Thesaurus – Lloyd-Williams and Calderone. The Power of the Actor – Ivana Chubbuck The Intent to Live – Larry Moss The Monologue [...]

  • Excerpt from An Interview with Mark Westbrook

    Updated: 2010-08-16 03:26:24
    This is an interview I did a while ago (but didn’t end up getting published)… It’s just an excerpt.  Hope you enjoy it. When I met Mark Westbrook to interview him, he was not how I imagined him to be.  Some of the pictures on his website show a rotund bearded man, in his 30s, [...]

  • A Handy Guide to Acting Emotions with Steven Seagal

    Updated: 2010-08-13 23:06:17
    Steven has always been one of my favourite actors   Thought you would all enjoy the chance to learn from the master. To You, The Best! Looking for Acting Classes in Glasgow? Mark Westbrook is a Professional Acting Coach and runs Acting Coach Scotland, a private acting studio offering acting classes in Glasgow, masterclasses, workshops [...]

  • Method Acting and Practical Aesthetics: What’s the Difference?

    Updated: 2010-08-10 08:40:26
    For Oliver. One of my students asked about the difference between Method Acting and Practical Aesthetics: First off, let’s make clear a point of similarity. All acting techniques have the same goal, to produce truthful acting by freeing the actor from self-consciousness and physical tension. A second point is that they are both derived from [...]

  • Preparation

    Updated: 2010-08-09 18:10:41
    From today our studio has a new motto, Preparation, Preparation, Preparation. As an actor, you cannot be prepared enough. Preparation comes in all different forms but it is the most important word in the actor’s vocabulary, for without solid preparation, all the rest is irrelevant. I have nothing else to say on the matter, excuses [...]

  • Actors Screaming Into The Wind & What’s Legitimate?

    Updated: 2010-08-08 05:01:42
    A surprise guest. A clock that's lost its tock. Background actors "teaching" you how to be a star. A different Answers for Actors.

  • The Beauty of Truth

    Updated: 2010-08-07 01:39:32
    I love watching performance. There’s something magical that I’m drawn to in the actor’s art of storytelling. But most of the time, I confess, what I see is little short of rubbish. Sometimes the play is intellectual at the cost of the story, sometimes the ideas thrust upon the actors by the director are faulty [...]

  • The Other

    Updated: 2010-08-06 15:00:09
    “The best way to be in contact with the audience is to be in close relationship with the other characters in the play” Stanislavski The Other is the most important person in your scene. For Stanislavski, the Other was the other characters, but for us, the Other are the actors in your scene. By placing [...]

  • Just Say the Lines

    Updated: 2010-08-05 12:00:21
    My experiences as a writer are that given enough rope, the actors will labour the lines to death.  They’ve also develop an assumption through popular culture or training that they are superior to the words in some way, and can (and often do) request changes to the text based on ‘what sounds better’ or the [...]

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