Updated: 2011-05-27 00:53:17
It is rare that I go to the theatre these days. To be honest, I love it, but I get bored easily and I almost always leave disappointed. Last weekend, I was lucky enough to catch two performances of ‘Grenades’ by the extremely gifted Mephisto Theatre Company. I was expecting it to be good and [...]
Updated: 2011-05-23 20:02:05
You are an actor, you give a performance, this performance requires creative decision making and the end result is a kind of art work. You are not however, a creative artist in the same way as the sculptor, the poet or composer. Your fearlessness, your intuition, your spontaneity and your capacity to live truthfully the [...]
Updated: 2011-05-20 11:45:01
There are always two scenes, the one that you read in the script and the one that unfolds in front of you as you bring the scene to life with the other actors. The two scenes need to merge in the final performance but it is the scene in front of you that must take [...]
Updated: 2011-05-18 12:00:28
I recently went to see a production, I won’t discuss who or what or where. But I was very disappointed. Not in the actor’s performance, not in the show. But in their reaction afterwards. I complimented their work, I enjoyed it, I didn’t critique it as such, but truthfully told what I felt. In reaction, [...]
Updated: 2011-05-17 11:00:42
When I was younger, I was convinced by others that to act was to perform. To be like life, but larger, to be sincere but bigger, to project myself to a greater extent. But of course, no one told me how to do this thing, because no one knew. Don’t get me wrong, I listened [...]
Updated: 2011-05-16 04:55:48
When you go after a real tangible goal on stage or on camera, you may know that you aren’t going to get it. That’s somewhat obvious. You can only achieve what the script allows and sometimes, often, no – most of the time, the script will not allow it, unless it’s the end of the [...]
Updated: 2011-05-03 11:00:01
This evening I attended Bold Girls, which could be the penultimate theatrical production to take place at the Ramshorn Theatre in Glasgow. Home to the Strathclyde University Drama Centre, its amateur theatre group and a number of drama courses, but if the university gets it’s way, the Ramshorn, may soon be no more, or perhaps [...]
