Acting

before my first show in front of a live audience and the excitement of being someone else onstage was exhilarating. It was patently clear that acting would become a lifelong interest. For me it is not only thrilling and expressive, but a foray into the life of the character I am playing and an opportunity to experience something new. I love many aspects of acting. I appreciate the relative fame and recognition I get from being a prominent young actor in a small town…

The Macbeth Acting Extravaganza taught me how to manage group work better, made me analyze Macbeth in a different way, and gave me a greater appreciation of theater. I was very happy with the group I was put in, and we worked well with each other. Initially, we wanted to do the scene about Macduff’s family. We decided to go with the banquet scene because we had the perfect amount of people. The Sunday after we were assigned this project, the group got together to work on our scripts. One of the…

Tom Hiddleston and The Process of Acting Acting is a very specific form of expression, it requires lots training, some natural talent for being in front of the camera, the ability to understand how the business works, and it also requires you to be able to submerge yourself into the character you need to play entirely. Acting is a profession that can’t always guarantee a paycheck or even a job. Acting’s process is an extensive one but doing a show and looking out to the audience is a bigger…

Since I was young, I have loved watching movies. It is the only thing I can do all day long. And I have admired actors, thinking that acting is something that I cannot even try, which is meant for someone special and talented. Before I came here, I knew there was an acting for non-major class. I wanted to take the class, but I did not have courage to take this class and I just wanted to stay in my comfort zone. As I came here, however, everything was a challenge. After I realized that, I said to…

opportunity to chat with Lauren about her foray into the world of acting, including her varied experiences and accomplishments. What inspired you to become an actress? I always wanted to become an actress--even from the age of about three or four. I was very shy, and so at the age of four, I started taking dance lessons. This is kind of what helped me grow into my own, so to speak. While I was still very shy and very afraid, I wanted to try acting. I graduated from high school, and I went on…

Creating an effective performance of stage combat or straight acting involves a great deal of preparation and thought. There are many elements that come together to create the show and as a performer there are several things that can be done to make the rehearsals leading up to it an effective use of time. Preparing physically and mentally for every rehearsal, spending some time discovering the character’s world, and being open to discussions and changes throughout the process. These are some of…

It goes without saying that this was a unique experience that forced us to take a task and that we do daily or often and observe it very carefully in order to explore the differences between acting and reality and how to unify the two. Taking a task as simple as making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or cleaning a fish tank and breaking it up into detailed steps was more difficult than I had imagined, but it forced me to put my every day life under the magnifying glass and understand how I…

introduced a new avant-garde approach to stage design, lighting, sound, and most importantly acting which has had a major impact in theatre now days. He was the first Russian director to go against realism in an extremely traditional and political time in Russia. Through this style of theatre the concept of biomechanics came to life which completely changed the idea of realistic acting. Biomechanics is a form of acting training meant to express an emotional experience through the movement of the…

in the 1951 production of the play starring Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh. In this production the play is acted out in a way that allows all audiences to grasp the underlying theme while remaining entertaining and engaging to the audience. The acting was one of the greatest attributes of the production. Although this movie had a relatively low budget by Hollywood standards the director was lucky enough to have two actors who would come to fame in the own rights act in this movie while they…

Most of the actors during this period spoke in a grandiose tone, and gestured in an over the top manner. Stanislavski helped to change much of that, in many ways Stanislavski is the father of today's style of Method Acting, which is widely used in movies. But it is argued that “Method Acting” is not the Stanislavski system, but it is obviously derived from…