The Crucible
Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, is one of the greatest plays of all time. It is a four act tragedy, that must be seen or read by all actors. There is a good film version with...
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Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone is one of Sophocles seven surviving plays. It is widely considered on of the best plays of all time. For any actor, this is an essential play to read. Antigone Synopsis The Palace of...
Iago Crowned (Poll Results)
The cunning and deceptive Iago takes the top spot as your favourite Shakespeare character. Lady Macbeth came a close second, followed by Beatrice from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. We have taken the polling results and...
Best Euripides Plays
About Euripides… One of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece, Euripides has given us some of the greatest plays of all time. Medea, the number one on our list of best Euripides plays, is...
Good Jobs for Actors
The Dilemma What on earth can an actor do to make money? Certainly not acting. Too negative? Well: look what you’re currently reading. If you were merely befuddled by the title and are struggling to...
Theatre in Education
I recently concluded a six week primary school musical tour, and I survived… The words theatre in education are often followed by a long sigh. Kids, long days and over the top acting aren’t the...
Othello
Here we go… How to clearly explain Shakespeare’s harrowing tragedy, Othello? Like most of Shakespeare’s plays, Othello can be summed up in either a sentence or a novel. I shall therefore do my utmost to...
Shakespeare Poll…The Results are in
So we asked our visitors which is the best Shakespeare play and can you believe it, Hamlet has taken the crown. However, we were a little surprised to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream coming in...
Best Samuel Beckett Plays
A list of the five best Samuel Beckett Plays. Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Dublin in 1906 and Died in France in 1989. He spent the majority of his life in Paris and is...
Lessons from a Co-op
Co-ops… if I was writing this at any other moment in the process you’d have a very different account of my experience. There were highs, and of course, some colossal lows in which I considered,...