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the stuff you just can’t fake
the fortress of solitude
recommended movement forms for actors
the actor and the sentence
Javier Bardem’s laboratory, or, render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s
losing the suburban
speaking volumes
the payoff
conferrers of authority
the problem with “tactics”, or, the art of asking
peaks and valleys
the seriousness of children at play
trust issues
John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) on the creative process
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Teaching transference is tricky.
Transference is a technique propounded by Uta Hagen. She initially called it “substitution”. Transference is the process of attempting to find counterparts from your own experience for the people, places and things you interact with in the course of your performance. Sounds straightforward enough, right? I’m playing Stanley Kowalski, I need to find someone from my own life experience with who I have or had a relationship that is comparable to my relationship... Read Full Story
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On this Facebook page , students and friends remember the great Earle Gister . dean of the Acting Program at the School of Drama from 1980-1997. I wanted to share some of them here.
In 1968 Earle auditioned me in New York for Carnegie Mellon. I made it in, and was on my way with my ten month old daughter and her mother. I had recently turned eighteen. When I arrived in Pittsburgh, there was a problem with my living quarters on campus. They didn’t know I was coming with a family. Earle... Read Full Story
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a right jolly old elf
I was sorry to hear today of the passing of Earle Gister, Dean of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama from 1980 to 1997. He was a brilliant, incisive, generous teacher and a true lover of both the theater and the drama. We will not see his like again.
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“You are what your deep driving desire is. – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
#quote
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Hilarious!
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…for filmmaking these days.
Went to see this yesterday. Beautiful film, some luminous performances. Highly recommended.
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This is a great anecdote from a piece on Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley on an epiphany born of an insult. The context was a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by the great Peter Brook:
I was playing Demetrius. Frances de la Tour was playing Helena. Peter said, “OK, let’s run the scene.” We did, and I thought I’d impressed him with some funny, charming, witty acting. I saw Peter Brook, the great director, advancing slowly across the rehearsal room with a twinkle in his eye. I... Read Full Story
