Manage surprises
As a performer you have secrets. Your secrets are all the things that are going to happen to your character in the story. As a performer...
FISH5: What is pace?
Pace could be seen as how the audience thinks. In the fish exercise (see Fish1-4) I ask half the group to become audience and to clap...
Who is the audience?
People are always performing. And they have their ways of making you, and others, their audience. Maybe they look at you, or maybe they...
Preparing to perform
Warming up. Getting ready. Preparing to perform. The main task in preparing to do a performance is, I think, a mental one. You are...
Moses's aching feet
A breakthrough on performing The Table in Porto last week. After 370 performances... So the problem: performing the feet is very painful....
What is the voice?
Another thing that confused me for a long time and I see confuses lots of people. The voice is not talking. And talking is not...
the "up" and the "down" of feet
The feet pick up, before they step down. Up down. Maybe they pick up on an in-breath and put down on an out-breath, but not necessarily....
The Puppet Centre
Get the feet right. Then put the body on the feet. Then put the breath in the body. Then speak. One of the things we try to do as actors...
Don't wait for inspiration, breathe in!
Of course they mean the same thing so what's my point? I think we spend too much time sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike....
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