What is this things called Acting?
Fri, 8 Sept 2006, 07:23 pmUPstageWA35 posts in thread
What is this things called Acting?
Fri, 8 Sept 2006, 07:23 pmLarge Meeting Room, Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth
Seen any theatre lately? Been in a production?
Did you enjoy it? Was some of it, well... y'know.
UPstageWA is a company that wants to raise the bar on theatre. The aim is to provide opportunities for community theatre practitioners of all levels to learn from industry professionals and respected community theatre practitioners including fantastic networking opportunities for people in community theatre.
There will be a series of Discussion Panels and Master-classesi that "tell it like it is" on various topics. You may be confronted, you may not necessarily like everything you hear, but we assure you of the most interesting theatrical panel discussions you will ever experience.
Panel members will consist of industry professionals, respected community theatre practitioners, and people who have experience, background and credibility to shake us up a little. One week later, the panel will be followed by a Master-class which will deal with the issues raised at the panel discussion.
When: Our first Discussion Panel will be on Acting, Tuesday, October 17th at 7.30pm.
Cost: Discussion Panel is $10 per person ($5 for students)
Master-class is $15 per person (10$ for students)
Master-class bookings will be opened at the Discussion Panel – Places limited for the Master-class
Contact: Use the Write to Author link below to request more details.
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When Rules get in the way.
Tue, 19 Sept 2006, 08:28 amI can't remember where or who, but once upon a time I learned a dialogue that went something like;
All truth/rules have their exceptions; occasions where they are to be broken; A lie is simply a truth with a very large number of exceptions.
The statement "Every Crow is Black" is suddenly false when an albino crow walks past or some wayward youth pulls out a can of spray paint and colours one pink.
This is the same for all rules and guidelines. There are times where breaking them can present a very powerful symbol, and we broke a few rules in Quake. ;-)
My specific concerns are more (as Alex mentions) when it is a sign of poor skills or inexperience. Before any actor can effectively break the rules as such, they must know what the rules are in order to understand the best opportunities to break them.
Rules broken in character are rules broken well. Rules broken from laziness, inexperience, poor skills, or pure arrogance are distructive to the performance.
On the whole, I agree with you Kirilee. I just see it as needing to go back to basics first. If you come along to the panel, you can pose these very questions yourself. I look forward to seeing you there.
Absit invidia
Jeff Watkins
Perth based Actor/Performer
who can also sing ... and occasionaly dance
Fight/Sword Choreographer
Virgin Director
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