Tag: acting

Analyzing Oscar

As I write this, the announcement of nominations for the 80th Academy Awards still lies in the future. Nevertheless, I can make a make a few bold predictions: the actors nominated most likely appeared in dramas from major film distributors, and have either been nominated in the past or appeared in a film starring or …

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Coming soon to a theatre near you…

…(if you live in Saskatoon, that is)…me! Looks like I’ll be part of the cast for Beauty and the Beast at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon in December. Should be fun, and it’s also exciting because this will be the show that launches the brand-new downtown theatre: I gather our first preview will also be the …

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Photo of the Week: The Widow Simone

Here I am in all my glory as the Widow Simone in Class Act Studio‘s upcoming production of the comic ballet La Fille mal Gardée: Perhaps I should ask that this be used as my photo on book covers from now on…?

Laurey is now Aunt Eller

This caught my eye, since I just played Jud in Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Oklahoma!: Oscar-winner Shirley Jones will be featured in the Pittsburgh CLO’s upcoming staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma!, according to the theatre’s website. Oklahoma! runs through July 1st. Jones, who famously played Laurey in the 1955 film …

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Pore Jud…

…may well be dead, but at least he’s not Ed–not any more. We wrapped up Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Oklahoma! yesterday, and, as the rural correspondents of the Weyburn Review were wont to say when I was editor there, “A Good Time Was Had By All.” I received a lot of compliments on …

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Accents and dialects of the U.K.

This is a very cool site from the British Library: click on a map of the U.K. and hear a recording of someone from the region you’ve clicked on speaking in the local dialect. A great resource for actors trying to nail a particular accent, among other things. (Via The Corner.)

Launching live theatre into the 22nd century

We’ve become accustomed to seeing real and virtual actors (or at least extras) blended with real and virtual sets in the movies. Now it’s being done live on stage: Using new techniques that merge the Internet 2 with traditional stage theatre, the University of Central Florida, Bradley University in Illinois and the University of Waterloo …

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I finished it! I finished it!

I turned in the manuscript for Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw to Red Deer Press last night. Whee! Of course, I still have several hundred photographs to take, apparently in the middle of a cold snap, but at least it will be a change from sitting on my…chair. Now maybe I can make …

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Theatrical lighting that adjusts itself…

…to the mood of the performers and the audience. Sounds like a bad idea to me. If the show stunk, the mood of the audience would give you a black-out on stage and full lights in the house, the better to illuminate the exits. And as for letting the mood of the performers alter the …

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Do It With Class Young People’s Theatre Co.

There are a lot of talented young people in Regina. Some of the most talented will be on stage this week and next, as Do It With Class Young People’s Theatre Inc. presents two musicals, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Alice in Wonderland. Do It With Class, now in its seventh season, began with just …

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The Viewpoints method of acting

Just as (at least according to the old saying) there’s more than one way to skin a cat, so there is more than one way to approach the craft of acting–and lessons in one new approach are about to be offered in Regina. Probably the most famous method is usually called, capital letters and all, …

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Stage fright

  I love to perform.  Getting up in front of an audience and singing, acting, reading or just speaking is about the most fun thing I can think of. But many people find that hard to imagine.  Research shows that what North Americans fear more than anything else–more than snakes, heights, disease, going broke, even …

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