The New-Old way to Approach Shakespeare as an Actor
Table of contents Meeting Shakespeare Head On: George Devine’s Revolutionary Principle When the new Royal Court Theatre was set up in 1952, the artistic director George Devine had a core principle: approach every new play like a classic and every classic like it was a new play. Respect and enshrine a living playwright’s work and […]
Movement for actors: Emotion in Movement, Space – Time
What is Movement in Acting Technique? Movement training for actors focuses on developing physical awareness of the body itself, of the surrounding space, and of the expressive potential of movement within that space. An actor does not exist in isolation: they are always situated within a spatial environment that shapes how they move, act, and […]
Theatre companies and playwrights in Barcelona
Theatre companies producing good work in Barcelona Barcelona has a really diverse, vibrant, politically engaged, and artistically rich stage culture that has developed in unique and very particular ways that have to do with language, identity and a way of living that’s both widely inclusive and slightly scared of change. This article aims to […]
Everything you need to know to work as an Actor in Barcelona
This article will help you along that journey by taking you step by step through training, finding a job, auditioning, and more helpful things to know on your journey to Broadway.
This article serves as a guide to performers wanting to become a broadway actor/actress or work as a professional musical theatre performer in the United States.
Queer subtext in Tennessee William’s characters
“Whoever you are – I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” Blanche’s final speech, possibly Tennessee Williams most famous line in his greatest play A Streetcar Named Desire, epitomises the queerness, the otherness, that pervades his work. Table of Contents About Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams. (1911 -1983) was born in Columbus Mississippi […]
Harold Pinter: Adventures in Pinterland
Exploring the life and work of Harold Pinter, a renowned playwright, through the eyes of his friend Harry Burton.
Commedia dell’ Arte: An introduction to origins of Modern Theatre
To speak about Commedia dell’Arte is – essentially – to enter a very complex and heterogeneous field of theatre and live performance: it is to step into a story that lasted from the end of the 16th century until the beginning of the 20th century – in southern Italy, for example. This complexity arises because […]