Blind Summit in Lockdown
Day 35 in the house... Blimey etc. Corona. Lockdown. Isolation. What is there to say? I'm having a holiday. I'm trying not to feel guilty...
The problem of repetition
Here's a common problem. Someone does a brilliant improvisation, a brilliant impersonation, tell a brilliant story. They are witty,...
Acting is reverse engineering
First you need to imagine what you want the audience to see. Then you need to figure out how to do it. Then you need to figure out what...
Help yourself!
When you're in a production there are things you can do something about, and things you can't. The script may not be any good. The...
The puppet's inner monologue
How do you know what the puppet is thinking? By looking at it. Everyone in the audience can tell you what it's thinking or isn't...
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....