Inside The Actors Studio - Drew Barrymore

Inside The Actors Studio - Angelina Jolie

Inside The Actors Studio - Cameron Diaz

Inside The Actors Studio - Johnny Depp

Inside The Actors Studio - Ricky Gervais

One of the best and funniest, 'Inside The Actors Studio' with Ricky Gervais

Book your tickets now to see How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found By Fin Kennedy

When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, she pays a visit to a master of the craft in a seafront fortune teller’s in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears she is already lying flat out on her slab, she begins to re-live the nightmarish final hours that see her body retrieved from the Thames, stripped of everything that made her who she was.

With echoes of Camus and Kafka, this extraordinary new play follows one woman’s desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century.

Directed by Daniel Finlay

Book your tickets now by clicking here

Central School of Speech and Drama launches £120,000 of scholarships and bursaries

The Central School of Speech and Drama is to allocate £120,000 for scholarships and bursaries in the next academic year. Read more on The Stage website by clicking here.

Do women find it hard to claim they are ambitious? Talk by actor Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike (Barney's Version, Made in Dagenham) speaking at the launch of the 2011 Birds Eye View Film Festival.

Birds Eye View celebrates and supports international women filmmakers. The 7th annual Festival ran from 8 - 17 March 2011 at BFI Southbank, Southbank Centre, the ICA and other selected venues across London - visit www.birds-eye-view.co.uk for full details of future events and find out more about Birds Eye View.

Want a unique glimpse into the ‘behind the scenes’ world of theatre? Come along to Theatrecraft 2011

TheatreCraft 2011 is the FREE event with the best careers advice in the business

TheatreCraft covers everything from technical theatre to wig making and musical directing to set design. It's not just about our amazing programme of workshops. We also have top professionals on-hand throughout the day and loads of info from the people and organisations who can help your career.

TheatreCraft 2011 takes place on 28th November at the London Coliseum.

TheatreCraft 2011
Monday 28th November
9.30am - 4.30pm
London Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4ES

See website for more details and book your place

Jason Schwartzman - In Character: Actors Acting

World renowned photographer Howard Schatz sits down with actor Jason Schwartzman to discuss how he began his career and what he loves about the trade.



Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at his photoshoot for Vanity Fair and Howard's "In Character" series.

Jason Schwartzman is known for his roles in Rushmore, Shopgirl, I Heart Huckabees, The Darjeeling Limited, HBO's "Bored to Death," Funny People, and the recently released Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

CREDITS:
Writer/Director/Photographer
Howard Schatz: www.howardschatz.com

Videographer/Editor
Justin Grazioli: www.jgraz.com

Book your place for free Q&A with Christopher Eccleston

Masterclass is running a Q&A with Christopher Eccleston on Friday, June 24 2:30PM - 4:30PM

Book now for a Q&A with Mr Eccleston - one our finest and most exciting TV, Stage and Film actors. Star of everything from Shallow Grave to Jude, 28 Days Later, Dr. Who and The Shadow Line - not to mention countless modern and classical stage triumphs. Join the waiting list now for more tickets to be released soon.

Book by clicking here. Places will go fast!

Masterclass run free talks and workshops with leading theatre proffessionals to anyone aged 17 - 30 years old.

Find out more about Masterclass here

Need some work? Masterclass comes to Brighton

Masterclass is coming to Brighton and needs your help to spread the word with a bit of fun filled flyering.

Fill in the form on the website and you may be off to Brighton for an all expenses paid working day trip to the Brighton Festival Fringe. In return for four hours pounding the seaside streets we will give you an open return train ticket and £30 for your troubles.

More details are on the Masterclass website here

Michael Chekhov Technique - Short trailer from the DVD Series

This is a trailer for a 6.5 hour series entitled 'Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique'. It is Produced by MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association, and distributed by Routledge. You can visit the website at www.michaelchekhov.org for more information.



Below are two longer versions of a trailer.

Have you read Acting without Acting?

If you are getting though your acting book reading list, a fan of Curb your enthusiam and wanting a chuckle on this slightly grey Friday afternoon you will most probably enjoy this.



From episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 7 - Episode 10

Modern theatre is home to Australia's oldest professional theatre company

Founded in 1953, Melbourne Theatre Company is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia. In January 2009 the stunning MTC Theatre was opened as the company's headquarters.

The design was completed by Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) architects who have helped to transform the formerly derelict Southbank area of the city to the dynamic district it has now become. The firm was so successful in their design that they have been honoured with the 2009 Victorian Architecture Medal winning highest accolades in three categories for public architecture, interior design as well as urban design.

Pae White designs stunning main stage curtain inspired by tin foil

Pae White is the artist has designed a breath taking main stage curtain for the Oslo Opera House. The Los Angeles based artist scanned images of crumpled aluminum foil then sent the scans through a computer numerically-controlled loom which transformed the pixels into a massive tapestry of cotton, wool, and polyester. The design is called “Metafoil”.

Pae White describes her work,

“Metafoil takes advantage of the captive gaze of the audience, introducing a foil, a false reflection, an illusion of depth, a novel typography that disrupts expectation and challenges perception. My work has attempted to subvert the viewer’s expected relationship to an everyday object, nudging them off balance, encouraging a deeper look. My goal is to cause viewers to stop and consider the bits and pieces of our lives that are most often overlooked, perhaps suggesting a more comprehensive reconsideration of the world around us, even to ask ourselves: ‘What is important to us?’ ‘What are we seeing?’ ‘What are we not seeing?’”

You can see more work by Pae White here.

Sir Ian Mckellen, On Acting

Sometimes when you are focused so intensely on studying acting you forget to step back and have a giggle. This video was found when looking for some inspiration on Youtube. Sometimes fate throws you what you need or rather a Youtube keyword search.



You can see the full series of Extras on DVD
Extras - The Complete First Season

Picnic on the Battlefield photography

Here is an exclusive look at rehearsals that are taking place for the Big Pants Theatre Production of Picnic on the Battlefield.

I was lucky enough to be asked by the actors from Big Pants and Director Alan Perrin to go along to rehearsals and take some photographs. I am pleased with the results and can't wait to see the play.







See the full set of photographs here on my Flickr account.

See the previous blog post for more details on how you can get tickets to see the play & the Big Pants Theatre Productions website.

Photography © Jane Postlethwaite 2011

Big Pants Theatre Productions present PICNIC ON THE BATTLEFIELD

Big Pants Theatre Productions is a newly established Brighton Based Theatre Company, producing contemporary plays for Brighton theatre goers who enjoy a pint and a play.


Big Pants Theatre Productions present: PICNIC ON THE BATTLEFIELD written by Fernando Arrabal, Directed by Alan Perrin.

Set Amidst a battle. During a lull in the fighting at the front, soldier Zapo gets a surprise visit from his parents who have decided to cheer him up with a picnic. Whilst bombs burst around them, the family makes a madcap picnic, joined by an enemy whom their son has captured.

A series of comic situations highlights the family's impossible encounter with the Other as we see the ultimate absurdity of war.

After a successful, sell out inaugural production of 'Blue Remembered Hills', Big Pants Theatre Productions return with another piece of no frills, honest theatre.

"Tonight's production of 'Blue Remembered Hills' was funny and beautifully acted. The stage was full of action and childlike excitement- not a dull moment"

- Jenny Rowe,The Maydays

Venue: The Lectern Pub, 5 Pelham terrace, Lewes rd, Brighton (opposite the B&Q Lewes rd)
Date: Sunday 6th March -Sunday 13th March 2011
Tickets: Pint and a Play- £9.80 Play- £7.50
Time: 8pm (Doors: 7:15pm)
To book tickets online please go to www.wegottickets.com
Reservations and queries: bigpantstheatre@hotmail.com

AKT Youth Theatre presents Bassett by James Graham

AKT Youth Theatre present Bassett by James Graham
Directed by Janette Eddisford & Daniel Finlay

Citizenship class at Wootton Bassett School and the supply teacher has gone a bit nuts, doing a runner and locking the pupils in. That's bad enough, but tensions are higher today than normal, a day when only yards from their confinement a repatriation of fallen British soldiers is happening along the high street - as it has over a hundred times before through this quiet Wiltshire town. And this one is more personal than most ...

Dean needs the toilet, Aimee needs a coffee, Amid needs to pray, and Leo ... well, Leo really, really wants to be at the repat, and is determined to escape. As factions form and secrets are revealed, maybe he's not the only one who'll want to get away.

Bassett is a pacy, funny and exhausting look at young people who have inherited a world at war; who, as they grow older, are starting to ask questions about these conflicts, their country, and themselves.

Bassett appears as part of The National Theatre New Connections 2011 - the UK's most exciting festival of Youth Theatre. NT Connections 2011

Venue: The Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY
Date: 11th - 12th March 2011
Time: 8pm (doors 7.30pm)
Tickets: £7.00 (£5.00 Cons)

To book tickets on line please go to brightonticketshop.com or call the Dome Box Office on 01273 709709.

Sanford Meisner - Theatre's best kept secret

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