acting | re-imagining

Strasberg on Brecht

For anyone sympathetic to Bertolt Brecht, proponent of the ‘Alienation Effect,' it would seem unlikely that the evangelist of 'the...

Since all theatre is psychophysical, what do we really mean by ‘physical theatre’? In theatre, we only get access to the ‘inside’ by...

I suggested in an earlier post that the actor’s ‘instrument’ is not her body and not her voice but the space in which she plays. At...

As jobs go, acting is both a peculiar and a difficult one. The essential problem is how to do something as if you’re doing it for the...

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made,” said George Burns. This is a variation of the ‘paradox of...

Was Thespis right? Is acting just a kind of ‘play’ (we refer to ‘play acting’ after all)? According to legend, Thespis was the inventor...

Crudely, acting could be defined as ‘pretending to be someone else’. But that sounds like dishonesty, so we'd need to add that acting...

Often, in developing a role, when a student actor really starts to act – when they start to truly become the character – they also cease...

The actor is exposed onstage and in a certain metaphorical sense ‘naked’. This may be part of the reason why so many books about acting...