The other day Simon Lipkin was interviewed as part of the Tam Talks. It was interesting to hear him say that throughout his career in the performing arts he has always presented himself as who he is, rather than trying to be what he thought his auditioners wanted him to be. This gave him an enormous advantage in that […]
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The inventor, Thomas Edison, famously said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Anyone who works in the world of the performing arts knows that you have to practise, practise and practise again before you can really start to achieve. Or to put it another way it takes between 6 and 10 years to […]
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The acting challenge last week was to get our theatre school students family members to smile, giggle or even laugh. And what a wonderful release laughter can be – like a good cry or a good scream. All that pent-up fury lessened by letting go. A child should laugh more easily but what about the […]
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Theatre stories are a model of the real world. Human behaviour in all its forms is there in the dramas, the soap operas, the music theatres and the comedies and the tragedies. Our little world of performing arts classes does the same with its stories – the good, the bad, the funny, the sad – […]
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In a couple of weeks our world has changed and so has our performing arts schools. It is dawning on us that we are living through a major change in our world and that world we knew will be different in the future. Some people are scared by this and want to cling to the […]
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