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Writing tagged Acting

  1. f/e 18 March 2018

    Trying to combine two kinds of acting, and ‘Transparent’.

  2. w/e 11 February 2018

    More acting classes, part-way through another laborious personal project, season six of ‘Spiral’, and episode recaps.

  3. f/e 21 Jan 2018

    Two plays, season one of ‘Justified’, a new term of acting classes, and a “workshop”.

  4. w/e 17 December 2017

    This week, double acting and sort-of-finishing some code.

  5. w/e 26 November 2017

    A good mixture of acting stuff and web stuff this week.

  6. 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.

  7. Selective Listening

    I had a scene in a film which you can now view online for free.

  8. Failing and trying and failing and trying again

    I’ve started doing some acting classes again, after about eight years of no acting.

  9. Teaching web development to design students

    What I taught to students at Goldsmiths and how it went.

  10. 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.

  11. Flexible with strong faces

    Examples of odd and interesting casting calls sent out for adverts.

  12. 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.

  13. Email improvisation

    Guidelines for successful improvisation, whether on stage or on a mailing list about an imaginary office.

  14. PhilipGyford.com

    I’ve set up a new website for me as an actor.

  15. 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.

  16. Now and Then

    How we went about creating my final project, a short piece of theatre about the start and end of a relationship.

  17. 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.

  18. Fight Test

    I’ve finished the stage combat course I started last year, and passed the Fight Performance Test.

  19. Telling each other what to do

    The final phase of the course, our final personal projects, a transition into the real world.

  20. Me at Interesting 2008

    Two little videos of parts of a five minute talk on masks I gave at Interesting 2008 last weekend.

  21. Occasionally going “SSSHHHH!”

    Our best-of-year performances are over. A very trying but thankfully satisfying process.

  22. Enjoying enjoying

    It’s the final term of college, nothing but Creation, and… I’m enjoying it!

  23. Different types of funny

    The end of our penultimate term, with our performance full of clowns.

  24. Meagre ambitions

    Three things I haven’t even attempted at college recently, and doubts about what I’m doing all this for.

  25. 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.