Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

As we approach a play and begin letting the facts simmer in our imagination, we can begin to ask questions, as though we are interviewing our character. There are no right or wrong questions and no two actors will ask the same ones. Your own personal exploration becomes part of your signature on the role. But here’s the rub: we cannot answer these questions based on our own limited personal experience, or from the cliches we have absorbed from film and television. We need to do research. What does that look like? Watching interviews and documentaries, or even better: talking to real people who share your character’s attributes and circumstances. The joy of research is that it opens us up to worlds beyond our own where we can shop for choices that feed us and help us build a 3-dimensional human.

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Connecting Through Specifics

Connecting Through Specifics

When an actor does not connect, you catch them "acting". It doesn't matter if it's a television series or a play. Specificity helps us connect.

10 Helmi 16min

Fighting Clichés through Specificity and Events

Fighting Clichés through Specificity and Events

We have a tendency to leap to clichés because the dialogue seems to lead us there. There's a way to fight this.

3 Helmi 16min

An Encyclopedic Possibility of Choices

An Encyclopedic Possibility of Choices

It's very difficult to believe that there is not just one correct choice. As long as an actor is clear what the text is about, there are countless roads in to the experience of the world of the play.

27 Tammi 17min

Your choices must feed the text

Your choices must feed the text

"Everything is something." It seems simple, but as actors we often skip over something that can give us the key we're looking for.

20 Tammi 14min

Everything is Something

Everything is Something

The craft of acting is there to give us confidence. If we're not confident it's easy to see, especially for people casting. One of our problems is that we often throw away lines, – or parts of lines, ...

13 Tammi 15min

There is no shortcut to learning to act

There is no shortcut to learning to act

There are all sorts of quick fix "schools" of acting, but it's an art form and it takes dedicated study to become confident in your technique.

6 Tammi 5min

Impulse instead of Action

Impulse instead of Action

The purpose of the technique is to help open your talent, not strangle it. I'm suggesting that you think in terms of what the impulse is for a scene, – or what's going on with your character.

30 Joulu 20254min

The Dreaded Vocabulary of Acting

The Dreaded Vocabulary of Acting

The vocabulary of acting is strangling the talent of actors. The need to use the right words is cutting off the actor's talent.

24 Joulu 20254min

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