Can't Get Sad? Get Angry instead! Finding sadness hard in a scene, or your training? Then why not work for rage instead? All emotions are linked; they don’t exist as...
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How Batman can improve your acting (or why Actioning doesn't work) Actioning is a commonly taught Stanislavski principle that doesn’t work as effectively as people seem to want actors to...
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Hanging out on the beach can make you a better actor Picture this. You’re on a sun lounger, with a book in your hands. The distant sound of a motorboat...
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Perfection is being messy Wanting to be perfect as an actor, to nail the character, and play the scene well, is our aim. A perfect scene, though, requires you to...
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How not to kill the emotion by playing it Actors are petrified of the stage direction: ‘S/he falls into floods of tears’. The outcome has been prescribed by the writer,...
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Where does emotion come from? Emotion is not a means to an end, it’s part of cause and effect. To prepare anger, you can’t think about anger as a thing...
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Meet the three core emotions In the paint section of B&Q there are hundreds upon hundreds of colours on wall charts with fancy names: African Earth, Bombay Sunset, Phoenix dream,...
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How to find the emotion as an actor Emotion is a terrible Achilles heel for the actor. Feeling under pressure to produce an emotion is often the very reason why...
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How Tesco can make you a better actor: Repetition without repeating Repetition can be used all the time. There is a point where the need to repeat simply disappears. A...
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Repetition can be brought into the rehearsal room, by asking scene partners to repeat lines back to one another. This can blow all assumptions about how those lines ought to...
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