There’s a game you can play as an acting teacher. It’s very easy and all you need is a ball. You stand the group in a circle with spaces between. They can be any age, even adults. You tell them that the point is to pass the ball from person to person around the circle. […]
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These days we have a whole world waiting to judge others but how can they do that without knowing them? And can you ever know anyone else? The old Native American saying “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes before you judge” seems a good place to start. As a young drama student, I used […]
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It’s hard work being a young person. Have we forgotten how often we were angry or down as we were growing up? Sometimes it was a minefield just getting through a day. And didn’t we all have our bad days? Most of us probably still do. As I’ve always said the theatre space is special. I […]
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The arts community has looked again this week at the above ad and the Government recalled the message. Im not surprised as it sends out a lot of messages that maybe the ad agency didn’t think about. The creative industries have been a huge contributor to the economy – £13 million to the UK economy […]
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When I was at school, we had a band – the brass band kind not the rock music kind and I learnt a lot from it. In year 9 I led my section but I wasn’t that good. Suddenly a new pupil joined who although two years younger was much better than me. He had […]
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