Acting

BREATHING The word ‘inspire literally means ‘to breathe in. The ancients thought that an essence of divine spirit permeates us each time we inhale. And, in fact, when we inhale, ...

Marlon Brando burst onto the international film scene like an enraged gorilla as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Willliams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. He was physical, unpredictable, moody, violent, uncouth, completely spontaneous ...

There has been much needless controversy amongst those who practice acting techniques that derive from the work of Stanislavski and Strasberg, principally surrounding the issue of building character. I’ve witnessed ...

Many actors who train in a Stanislavski or Strasberg based approach devote much of their energy toward achieving highly vulnerable emotional states. I have even encountered students whose primary training objective ...