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Topic: Actors and acting
Mobile digital movie-making
No computer needed. Thanks to the new iPhone, movies can go straight from an iPhone 4 handset to YouTube. Click to view… Continue reading
Proof positive: digital movies can now be shot, edited, and uploaded from a phone. (See below, courtesy of Will Head, writer for MacUser.)
Was it WC Fields who said: "Never act with children or dogs. They will always upstage ...MORE >
The actor’s “as if” in turbulent times
Management guru Stefan Stern meticulously recalls a screen performance by the late great actor Paul Newman. Continue reading
FT Weekend reprints Stefan Stern's eulogy blog to Newman. It's great to see how Stern notates Newman's deft performance of David Mamet's script for the Sidney Lumet 1982 film The Verdict. Click here to read the blog.
To add: The speech works on another level. In speaking of ...MORE >
What is a throughline?
Explaining our company’s name and the connection we forge between the craft of acting and the art of business Continue reading
In theatre, a throughline is the work an actor undertakes to connect all the actions visible to an audience with the unseen – but no less integral – inner life of the character s/he portrays.
In “literary” theatre, a playwright dictates the dialogue (that’s ...MORE >