what comes to hand
One of the tools I’ve embraced as an Actor is the one of using what you have ‘just lying around’. If I’m working on a role and I want to get some feel for the part, usually – if not always – the information is in the script. We can then use our brains and get everything we need from the work, for the work.
Great novels are an excellent example of this. When we read Dostoyevski’s Crime And Punishment, we see everything immediately. There’s no need to torture oneself in figuring out what the character wants or why he does things. It’s all there. We don’t have to twist ourselves into knots. Read more
The Business of Acting
The business of Acting, or I should say the business behind Acting, is something I feel not very confident to discuss. This is why I have an agent. There is a time, however, when we have to look at this subject seriously, and to address things – a time when our agent will not be able to do everything for us.
I’m at that place now, and although I’d be fibbing if I said I was totally relaxed about it, I genuinely believe that this is to be a very valuable and exciting time in the development of my career. Read more
A Good Week
Yes, as the title suggests, a very productive week has just passed. It started the week before when I agreed to attend a photo shoot to promote a screenplay called “Bouncing” by Peter Fitzgerald. Then on Tuesday last I took part with a fine group of Actors rehearsing a public reading of the above script. This was then read on Wednesday night at the Subiaco Arts Centre. I also put my hand up to read a scene live on RTRFM Radio in Mt.Lawley. A live radio read is a first for me, and I found myself unexpectedly nervous, though I think it went well.
Last Friday 2 October 2009, I took part in a production called “It’s Just Gary”. I love working, and the varied range of things I participated in from photo shoots to live radio reads to rehearsing and performing in front of a full house was just what this Actor loves.
