• Why Doesn't Anybody Talk About the Importance of Line Memorization?

    Updated: 2012-06-26 16:47:34
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  • Noticing, experiencing, affecting and being affected.

    Updated: 2012-06-25 14:15:24
    They say that one of the differences between acting on the stage and acting for a camera is the stage actor ‘performs’ and the camera actor ‘experiences’. I do not subscribe to the division, I think the stage actor often has to project things over distance, but it does not mean they are not experiencing. [...]

  • Security is an Illusion: Do It Now!

    Updated: 2012-06-23 23:21:31
    We are all waiting for the right time.  We are always waiting for the right moment.  We have learned that when we wait, nothing goes horribly wrong.  If we wait, if we do not take action, we do not risk, we do not fail, we do not get hurt. We are weak and we want [...]

  • Should Acting Be Truthful or Realistic?

    Updated: 2012-06-22 11:45:06
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  • Help I’m backsliding!

    Updated: 2012-06-21 03:21:04
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  • What is good acting? What does good acting look like?

    Updated: 2012-06-20 11:45:36
    With thanks to Tom It’s a difficult question and the answer could fill a book. Or several.  Or perhaps it already has. I can only tell you how I see acting. First off, the actor does nothing to interfere with my desire to suspend my disbelief.  The length of the performance, I want to pretend [...]

  • What does Drama School teach you?

    Updated: 2012-06-19 10:45:44
    I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.  Certainly access to thousands of hours of practice, expert tuition and knowledge will make you better.   But to my mind, acting courses are a little bit of a scam.  Well, I believe they are if they take those that are the best (i.e. those that [...]

  • How to Find Great Audition Monologues

    Updated: 2012-06-19 01:19:06
    Skip to Content Jump to Main Navigation and Login Jump to additional Information Search , View and Navigation You are here : Home About About Art Soul Acting About Rhonda S . Musak Methodology Fundamentals For Success Classes Coaching Classes Private Coaching College Prep Program Laser Acting Workshop Summer Teen Intensive Leap Workshop Testimonials Book Club Community Guest Book Newsletter Archive Social Media Thank You Contact Blog Sign Mailing List Recent Blog Entries Why Doesn't Anybody Talk About the Importance of Line Memorization How to Find Great Audition Monologues The Key to a Great Monologue Relationship , The Start of a Love Affair Choosing Monologues That Will Set Your Auditions on Fire How To Be A Pro When Working On Intimate Scenes : A Step-By-Step Boundary Setting Process

  • Acting isn’t Wearing a Mask…

    Updated: 2012-06-18 10:30:02
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  • The Key to a Great Monologue Relationship, The Start of a Love Affair

    Updated: 2012-06-12 15:28:40
    , Skip to Content Jump to Main Navigation and Login Jump to additional Information Search , View and Navigation You are here : Home About About Art Soul Acting About Rhonda S . Musak Methodology Fundamentals For Success Classes Coaching Classes Private Coaching College Prep Program Laser Acting Workshop Summer Teen Intensive Leap Workshop Testimonials Book Club Community Guest Book Newsletter Archive Social Media Thank You Contact Blog Sign Mailing List Recent Blog Entries Why Doesn't Anybody Talk About the Importance of Line Memorization How to Find Great Audition Monologues The Key to a Great Monologue Relationship , The Start of a Love Affair Choosing Monologues That Will Set Your Auditions on Fire How To Be A Pro When Working On Intimate Scenes : A Step-By-Step Boundary Setting Process

  • If you’re going to quit, do it now…

    Updated: 2012-06-12 14:15:52
    Most people are of the flawed belief that with acting, as with writing and other difficult endeavours, you either have it or you don’t. Bull. Some people seem to have more of a knack for it than others. But others learn to learn a skill. This belief in innate talent means people give up on [...]

  • How to Become an Actor

    Updated: 2012-06-11 16:00:27
    Today’s blog, I thought I would give some very basic advice.  People think it’s magic, like there’s a trick to becoming an actor.  Once you find the trick, powwee you’re an actor.  Well, it doesn’t work like that.  Sure there are actors that made it by being discovered.  But if you’re sitting around in your [...]

  • Articulation Exercise for Actors: Seuss on Socks

    Updated: 2012-06-07 01:25:22
    This is one of my favourite articulation exercises.  It forces you to open your mouth, articulate and speak clearly.  The Step 4 Scene and Technique Class students at my Glasgow Acting Studio have been working on this as part of their warm up. At first it looks tremendously tricky, but it isn’t.  There’s only 13 [...]

  • Once, Twice, Three Times a Voyeur | SLAC Patron Sarah Wright

    Updated: 2012-06-06 21:43:07
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  • Creating a Character

    Updated: 2012-06-06 17:40:10
    After many years and a heavy heart, I can honestly say that character building as an activity of the actor is an unnecessary waste of time. I don’t say this lightly, I spent years studying the best way to do it, I spent years training actors to do it, forcing actors to do it in [...]

  • Understanding the Scene

    Updated: 2012-06-05 17:43:11
    No one understands a scene intuitively. Anyone who picks up a script and starts acting is basing their decisions on quick improvisational based on the words written. If you ask actors, most struggle with understanding the text the most. Most have been baffled by the text analysis elements of their training. And so they rely [...]

  • Someone once told you…

    Updated: 2012-06-03 16:40:55
    The conventions of acting are part of our industry’s lore, set in stone, passed on, passed down.  They tell us what the norms are for our profession, and they become part of what passes for a craft.  But the conventions of acting are mainly nonsense. If you ask people what acting is.. the responses are [...]

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