by Bel | Dec 28, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
At Audition Doctor, Tilly always encourages students to spend a considerable amount of time in search of the speech that they would like to work on. David Haig recently was interviewed in Whatsonstage playing King George III: “It’s incredibly rare to find...
by Bel | Dec 16, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
Phillip Seymour Hoffman often spoke about the level of commitment and dedication acting required: “I think that the amount of concentration — sometimes the amount of personal exploration — it takes to do something well, can be not pleasant … like hard work is....
by Bel | Dec 15, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, tilly blackwood
In an interview in The Stage, Charles Edwards said: “It’s a very tangible thing, actually, putting together a performance. It’s twisting and rearranging and changing. One feels one is creating something whole, working on a performance.” This is something that Audition...
by Bel | Dec 2, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
In the Guardian this week, David Morrissey was interviewed about the process of preparing for his role in Hangmen. Far from worrying about the potentially incendiary nature of the play, Morrissey described the anxiety he felt with regards to his own performance. “All...
by Bel | Nov 24, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
This week, Mark Rylance spoke about the trap that many actors, including himself, fall into when acting Shakespeare. “[The acting ] is too slow. It’s too reverent. It is like taking a rap song in 400 years from now that we think is really wonderful and deciding it...
by Bel | Nov 18, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
Simon Russell Beale stated in an article for the Guardian entitled “Actors’ advice to actors”: “The actor’s primary responsibility is to make the text understandable at first hearing. That’s quite a big thing, and quite difficult, especially if it’s...
by Bel | Nov 10, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
Julian Fellowes recently caused a debate when explaining why he had rewritten vast swathes of his film of Romeo and Juliet: “To see the original in its absolutely unchanged form, you require a kind of Shakespearean scholarship, and you need to understand the language...
by Bel | Nov 3, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
Geoffrey Colman, head of acting at Central, wrote an article on the danger of aspiring actors disregarding the merits of professional training. “The cult of the untrained reigns supreme. Why wait three years, or even one – why make the effort to be trained at all?”...
by Bel | Oct 27, 2015 | acting classes, acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
Vulnerability is a quality highly prized by actors. Playing a role truthfully requires the ability to empathise and a willingness to unselfconsciously open yourself up, which inevitably exposes you to judgement. This can be daunting, especially for those who are...
by Bel | Oct 21, 2015 | acting classes london, audition classes, audition doctor, auditions, classes for acting, tilly blackwood
Brian Cox, Bill Paterson and Mark Thomson were interviewed in the Independent about their recent production of Waiting for Godot at the Edinburgh Lyceum. Paterson said: “Even if you’ve seen Beckett, if you’ve seen Godot, you underestimate what it needs. You tend to...
