Writing tagged Acting
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w/e 5 November 2017
This week I spent four hours each weekday exploring how to adapt a classic play, to set it in modern-day England.
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Selective Listening
I had a scene in a film which you can now view online for free.
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Failing and trying and failing and trying again
I’ve started doing some acting classes again, after about eight years of no acting.
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Teaching web development to design students
What I taught to students at Goldsmiths and how it went.
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Collective specular sodomy
Thinking about how giving and accepting criticism is common in creative writing, design and acting courses, but less so in the workplace.
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Flexible with strong faces
Examples of odd and interesting casting calls sent out for adverts.
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How’s the acting going?
More than a year on, people still keep asking me this. Short answer: “It’s not.” But that’s fine.
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Email improvisation
Guidelines for successful improvisation, whether on stage or on a mailing list about an imaginary office.
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PhilipGyford.com
I’ve set up a new website for me as an actor.
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Love and hate
My time at LISPA is over and while it’s been good, it’s too soon to know just how I’ve changed.
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Now and Then
How we went about creating my final project, a short piece of theatre about the start and end of a relationship.
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The director’s vision
I was in three people’s final projects: a brief clown, father of a girl who grows wings, and the element Polonium killing Marie Curie.
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Fight Test
I’ve finished the stage combat course I started last year, and passed the Fight Performance Test.
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Telling each other what to do
The final phase of the course, our final personal projects, a transition into the real world.
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Me at Interesting 2008
Two little videos of parts of a five minute talk on masks I gave at Interesting 2008 last weekend.
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Occasionally going “SSSHHHH!”
Our best-of-year performances are over. A very trying but thankfully satisfying process.
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Enjoying enjoying
It’s the final term of college, nothing but Creation, and… I’m enjoying it!
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Different types of funny
The end of our penultimate term, with our performance full of clowns.
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Meagre ambitions
Three things I haven’t even attempted at college recently, and doubts about what I’m doing all this for.
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Creating narrative as a team
Clowning is going well, in contrast to the Creation of the first couple of weeks of term, when we returned to the Heart of Darkness.
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A mental “yes”
We’ve started the term of clowns, beginning with trying to find our own individual clowns.
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Brits on a train
The presentations at the end of the second term of the second year were fun, and we did some more work on our gory, grotesque commuter piece.
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Hanging on to the reins
We spent a few weeks doing chorus work at the end of this term, but after all that I’m still clueless as to what makes a good chorus piece.
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Stuck in a stable space
For Voice class this term we had to write a song. Here’s how the process went for me.
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Our quest to understand how things move
We’ve had to memorise text for the first time… choosing a piece of a great speech and some words that open up big and small spaces.