What is Acting to you People in Perth?

What is acting to you people in Perth? Hmmm?? What do you all think it is? Whats it all about? Any ideas?

Please. None of this anonymous person nonsence. Why don't you just tell us who you are. And please don't refer to us as "you people".
What is acting all about? Why don't you tell us.

'you people' was said with a smile. you, meaning you have obviously a large chip on your shoulder, I was mearly starting a conversation from London and did not expect this vile response. I was being friendly and you read the text wrong. Why is that? As to regards to who I am. l'm an old friend.

It is a great conversation piece when people can chat about what acting is... So lets talk...

Dear An Old Friend,

Please don't take one person's response on account of all of us here in Perth. I understand what you meant old friend and some people read differently or not closely enough, some are just unfriendly! I prefer to remain anonymous in some circumstances and that's my choice. As to your topic on acting, yes i agree it would make an interesting conversation piece but I'll need alittle more time to think it over...hmmmmmm

A New Friend

I think what an 'old friend' doesn't realise is that there has been some history on this site with regards to people hiding behind anonymity. The feeling is that if you are not prepared to use your real name, then why bother expressing views at all. Particularly if you are writing to us from the UK (how's the weather by the way?) it's not as if any of us are likely to know you!!! As for Tim being 'vile', that's a somewhat harsh word to use, I don't think he meant it that way at all.

Melissa

PS see Travesties, please.

When I am the one acting, acting is "escaping from me for a little while". When others are acting, it is "escaping from my life for a little while". My life is good but it's nice to get away sometimes and it's especially nice to take an audience with me.

Cheers,
Gill

Yes. Brilliant, New friend. Feeling!!! Drama. A reaction. A response. A moment. New friend I only wanted to see what Perth actors feel. I mean no harm in my british brashness, we are often misunderstood or in my cast I'm always misunderstood. I wrote my original message with a smile.

That is brilliant. Acting is a wonderful way to express yourself. What you have just said is great. We all act for many different reasons, I know I do. It's great to act and be part of a company who work together and create exciting and fresh work.
Cheers Gill

Melissa. Hi.

Please don't misunderstand me I meant no harm. Yes vile was a harsh word to use. I know Tim isn't vile. I stay anonymous because it makes it interesting. Thats all.

The weather is silly in britain. The poms can't handle the 27's. I try to explain mid 40's to them. They think I'm talking about my age.

I claim not these thoughts as my own, but they are my opinion.

Acting is:

-To Become.

-Striving for that which you are not.

-Painting with spoken words and visible emotions

-Hiding from the dark.

-Smiling, and murdering whilst you smile.

-Knowing where your audience "is" before they do, taking them there, and leaving them there.

Just a couple of thoughts.

Eliot

Lovely. Brilliant. Eliot you have a great opinion.
Cheers

Acting - For me is:

A chance to become someone else, an opportunity to feel and become someone else's thoughts and emotions. An opportunity to entertain and to create a possible (hopefully) fullfilled feeling to an audience, to leave the audience smiling and laughing (comedy) or debating and bewilderment or even bamboozled. To test my ability to carry through the correct message, and to test my ability on being able to portray a character fully, making sure they believe that I am that person and not my real self up there 'acting'. For myself:- being able to do what I love to do and to feel whole!

I must apologise. My head was in a bit of an odd place this morning.
So, what is your name?

The reason I get up in the morning.

...now THAT is a GOOD one.......!

Troy,
U know ur the reason i get up in the morning, Monkey Boy.

Acting can be merely exaggeration or it can be playing a character. But acting in the sense where people pay to see you on stage or film is entertainment. You pretend to be something else and you entertain people doing so. If people are entertained then you are a good actor.

Well said mel, does it count if you use a name so closley associated with your real name that only one who does not know you would not realise who you were?

PS: Can you tabledance to "Bloke" by Chris Franklin?

PPS: See travesties only if you plan to stay until the end and not leave at interval!

To me, acting in Perth (at my age - 19), is bloody hard work!! There aren't many roles around for people as young as me.

But as to acting in general... what can I say? Its a way to experience those brief moments in peoples lives that test them in some way. Its a chance to be something you're not, to experience a situation that you would never normally be in. Its a way to live a thousand lives in one. Its the only way to live.

It is the only opportunity we get to try on different peronalities, become different people, without being diagnosed as schizhophrenic (apologies if I spelt that incorrectly). I act because I have to. If I didn't, I really would go crazy.

Melissa

As a student teacher, this is a small part of what the arts and drama encompasses for students


The arts contribute to the development of an understanding of the physical, emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, social, moral and spiritual dimensions of human experience. They also assist the expression and identity of individuals and groups through the recording and sharing of experiences and imagination.

The arts and the life of the community

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clothes we wear, the buildings in which we live and work, and many of the objects we use every day. The arts are important for the expression of the life and culture of communities, and contribute to the transmission of values and ideas from generation to generation. They play a major role in the forms of communication and entertainment we experience on a daily basis. They also have major industrial and economic significance and arts industries form a significant part of the modern
Australian economy. All students will experience the arts in various forms through their personal and working lives beyond school. For some, the arts will provide an avenue to a specific artistic career. For others, their learnings in the arts will be
applied in other occupations, be part of their leisure or feature in other parts of their daily lives.

The arts and communication

The arts are a major form of human communication and expression. Individuals and groups use them to explore, express and communicate ideas, feelings and experiences. Each arts form is a language in its own right, being a major way of symbolically knowing and communicating experience. Through the arts individuals and groups express, convey and invoke meaning. Like other language forms, arts languages have
their own conventions, codes, practices and meaning structures. They also communicate cultural contexts. Students benefit from understanding and using these ways of knowing and expressing feelings and experiences.

The arts and values

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which we live. The Arts Learning Area contributes to the development of core shared values in students, in particular, helping them to critically reflect, make personal meaning and show enterprise and initiative.

The arts, creativity and satisfaction

The arts provide a major means of personal creativity, satisfaction and pleasure. They allow the opportunity for creative problem solving, self-expression and the use of the imagination in a range of different forms. The study of the arts can provide students with immediate satisfaction as well as providing the basis for lifelong enjoyment. The opportunity for creativity in the arts develops studentsÂ’ abilities to plan, visualise consequences, experiment, try different approaches, solve problems and make decisions in situations in which there may be no standard answers.

The arts and life skills

Working in the Arts Learning Area involves the development of students’ skills across a wide range of human activities. Learning in the arts promotes the integration of skills from different areas of human potential, promoting ‘multi-sensory’ learning and the development of ‘multiple intelligences’. The arts develop verbal and physical skills, logical and intuitive thinking, interpersonal skills and spatial, rhythmic, visual and kinaesthetic awareness. They promote emotional intelligence, a way of understanding, using and making responses through the emotions and students’ intrapersonal qualities and experiences. Through the arts, students learn to use and experiment with a range of traditional and emerging technologies.


CJ

Acting is doing!!! That is it. This is what every major drama school drills into the heads of their hopefuls. That doesn't mean you have to have been to a drama school to be a good actor. But, drama schools really are a great training or any form of training (workshops etc) And if you can go to one then I always say go. Voice, movement and text is a plus. We must work for the playwright. Tell his/her story with truth and honesty. Be true to yourself and fellow actors.

Acting is doing!!

The four keys:::

Who am I?
Where am I? Where am I going?
What am I doing?
Why am I doing?

Who, where, what, why!!! Have these and you have foundations, have access to your emotions and you have truth, have truth and you hold the key. Hold the key and so will your audience. For without them there is no point.

Thank you for your thoughts

regards

AOF

I agree with your comments and am well aware of them.

Yes I agree you certainly do not need to go to an acting school. Most students learn drama at primary or high school level and go on from there and avoid acting schools altogether.

Acting is part of the drama process, and teaches students certain values, life skills and principles of drama. This is only a small part of what the art teaches.

CJ

NB Read up on "Dorothy Heathcote" she was an english actor then a teacher and forms the basis of some theories on drama.

Thanks for the feed - ' Dorothy Heathcote '. I will take a look, I never close my opinion on the theatre/acting/business. It is important we don't.

Cheers

HEY TROY IS THE ONLY REASON I GO TO THE THEATRE.

Okay okay I get it, what do you want? Money? I'm a thespian of the "starving" variety, in case you didn't notice...

i don't want your money.

i just want to do a comparative study