Friday, April 12, 2013
This month we conclude our extensive look at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s time to dive into the language of the play. How do we find character clues in the way a charact…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Episode Thirty-Six: YouTube Fireside Chat. Little Shop of Horrors. Pull up a fake chair by our fake fire with a fake cup of hot cocoa and listen to Craig and Lindsay discuss and dissect diff…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, April 8, 2013
On a previous Movie Monologue Monday I looked at Peter Finch in Network. Today I’m going to return to Network, this time looking at Ned Beatty’s brilliant and prophetic perform…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSunday, April 7, 2013
We’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Lindsay Price’s newest script: Shuddersome: Tales of Poe. Shuddersome: Tales of Poe Adapted by Lindsay Price From the wor…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMFriday, April 5, 2013
One of my favourite activities on our free resources page is the Shakespearean Insult Activity. I don’t know where it originally came from. Way back in the middle ages, Lindsay and I…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Episode Thirty-Five: Getting and Giving Feedback It’s necessary. It’s evil. It’s a necessary evil. Oh no not really, but there certainly is an art and a skill to giving and…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, April 1, 2013
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at James Corden performing an excerpt from 1 Man, 2 Guvnors during the 2012 Tony Awards. I know this isn’t a movie so it techn…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMFriday, March 29, 2013
The Stratford Festival is working with The University of Waterloo (my alma mater!) to develop some video games to complement their production of Romeo and Juliet. I’m very curious t…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Episode Thirty-Four: Once Upon a Midnight Dreary In this episode Lindsay talks with high school actors as they prepare to present her adaptation of Poe stories and poems. Based on this produ…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, March 25, 2013
This week’s Movie Monologue is going to look at Steve Martin in The Jerk. Martin is a master of comedy and this scene is played brilliantly. It’s a spoof of the cliché breakup s…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSunday, March 24, 2013
I believe that the word “musician” is too-often used to discourage people from participating in their birthright as sound makers. We are all sound makers. Mark Stewart Here’…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Theatre is supposed to be for everybody, but sometimes it feels anything but. Especially so on Broadway where tickets prices can be prohibitive. I found a Broadway trip report posted on Bu…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Episode Thirty-Three: Celebrate the Competition Lindsay chats with herself on what it means to celebrate the competition, why it’s important in the arts, and why she thinks finishing i…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, March 18, 2013
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Jack Nicholoson in Five Easy Pieces. Robert Dupea (Nicholson) has returned home to see his estranged father, who has suffered two…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSunday, March 17, 2013
I wrote about focus last week and got some great advice and feedback through our Facebook page. What I do before every rehearsal and show is some improv game for about 10min then a quick pep…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00PMFriday, March 15, 2013
All right, I did it again. I went too long, came up with too many exercises, and thought up too many questions. For the first time ever, I’m doing a three part newsletter. There is jus…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Episode Thirty-two: Romeo and Juliet YouTube Fireside Chat Since our February and March… and April newsletters revolve around Romeo and Juliet, we thought it appropriate to do a YouTub…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, March 11, 2013
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Phoebe Cates in Gremlins. It’s hard to believe that Gremlins, that 80′s-era sorta goofyish/scaryish movie has a monol…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSunday, March 10, 2013
Focus. We need to focus. We hear this all the time in the theatre, a call for focus. What does that mean, exactly? I can’t think of any better example than this performance by gymnast�…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 02:00PMFriday, March 8, 2013
We’ve added a new feature to our website that will help you save a few trees. Now when you order a printable PDF or Photocopy License of one of our scripts, you’ll be offered the…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Episode Thirty-One: The Weight You Give Them Lindsay talks about the weight we’ve given to offensive words and why people are often more offended by words than actions. Show Notes Cens…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, March 4, 2013
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Robert Blake in In Cold Blood. Based on a real-life events researched by Truman Capote, In Cold Blood details the story of two m…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSunday, March 3, 2013
“He didn’t care about the notes. Something’s impending. This is danger. This is ferocious.” Terrance McKnight Interesting quote. But who could McKnight be talking abo…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMFriday, March 1, 2013
Lindsay and I had a great chat the other night with on the TheatreCast Podcast. Check out the video below. We talked about the origins of our company, how we found our niche, and where we g…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Episode Thirty: New York Part Two In part two of Craig and Lindsay’s New York adventure they talk about their favourite theatrical experience – Too Much Light Makes the Baby go Blin…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, February 25, 2013
Here’s an unusual choice for Movie Monologue Monday – Douglas Rain as Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s unusual because the character is a computer’s voice R…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMFriday, February 22, 2013
[T]he key to his art is knowing not just how to use all those wonderful toys but how and when not to. Here’s an interview with lighting designer Al Gurdon, who designed the lights fo…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Episode Twenty-Nine: New York Part One This podcast offers reviews of two current New York plays: The Other Place and Bethany. Both plays feature a woman in crisis and both star actresses …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMMonday, February 18, 2013
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is a mind-blowing performance from Angela Lansbury. Yes, dear old Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast can grab the camera with a white-hot intensity…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSunday, February 17, 2013
Here is exactly why theatre, music, the arts, etc. will never go away: It’s because the arts don’t rely on technology. They rely on creativity. Technology evolves but the evoluti…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMFriday, February 15, 2013
This is Part One of an analysis and exercises issue for this often studied play, often performed in high schools – Romeo and Juliet. There is so much with work with here, we’re goin…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM 
