1,392 stories from Theatrefolk
Sometimes the hardest part in getting started is coming up with that first line. Turning a blank page into writing. It’s always going to be easier to turn away from a blank page than t…
I don’t hate musicals. I grew up on them, I was listening to You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown when I was too young to know what it was about. I have an original album cover …
It’s the part of being a professional actor that only resonates once you’ve done it. Eight shows a week. Twice on Saturday. On paper it seems so manageable. If you’re…
Episode Forty:Â YouTube Fireside Chat – Musicals We Don’t Know Pull up a fake chair by our fake fire with a fake cup of hot cocoa and listen to Craig and Lindsay discuss……
Today we’re pleased to welcome a guest post from Starshine Stanfield. Starshine writes about the amazing transformation of a school that shunned security guards in favour of more re…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. In this scene Streep puts a new assistant, who clearly does not understand the fashi…
We’re just paying attention to what happened since the lights went up. Nothing else exists. Dave Pasquesi If you or your students are interested in learning more about improvisation, I…
“Spectators come to the theater to hear the subtext.” Stanislavski Subtext is a glorious medium. It adds depth – there’s the conversation that two characters are havi…
Spring has officially sprung here at Theatrefolk Global Headquarters. And that can mean only one thing… our Spring 2013 Catalogue is here and hot off the presses. You can download it f…
What is creativity to you? Here’s one picture found over at Creative Something. Click here to see the pic in a larger form. They plunked the word Creativity into Google followed by a s…
Episode Thirty-Nine: I Don’t Know Whether it’s the answer to an adjudicator’s question, or it’s what an actor says about certain aspects of their character, the words…
Over at Gotham Writers Workshop there’s a post that gives Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 basics of Creative Writing: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not …
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Herbert Marshall’s internal monologue in Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder! The “internal monologue” is wha…
Did you know that the last Sunday of every month is designated as Free Play Sunday? We give away PDF preview copies of our scripts to our Facebook and Twitter followers. This month we’…
Today’s exercise is all about the list and the time limit. Both of which are excellent motivators in getting words on the page. That is the key to writing. We are writers, we are not w…
Teacher Stacy Meisetschlaeger talks about working with a very large Chorus in her production of Agatha Rex. Thank you so much Stacy for writing this great guest post! The Chorus in …
Episode Thirty-Eight: The Rules What are the rules an artist needs to follow to get the job done? What are the rules that must be consistently and fiercely broken? Lindsay talks about some o…
Because I live in a small corner of Canada and my plays are often performed far away from me, I don’t get to see many productions. So I love it when a director or a teacher reaches out…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Madeline Kahn’s performance in Paper Moon. Kahn was nominated for an Oscar for this film but lost to ten-year-old costar Ta…
I want to draw your attention to this great video courtesy of the American Theatre Wing. It’s a chat with composer Alan Menken about his career and his creative process. He talks…
Use this exercise to practice creating titles based on a picture. Find a photograph. A great source for public domain photos is flickr.com/commons. Take a few moments and study the ph…
Here’s one of my favourite acting exercises. You start with a list of descriptive characters. Here are some examples: A firefighter looking for occupants. A jealous significant other. …
I spend a lot of time thinking about the titles for my plays. It’s an important part of the process, mostly because in the bigger picture I’m an unknown. People who pick up my wo…
Episode Thirty-Seven: Welcome the Bad Bits. The path to success, whatever that success may be, is not by looking for the soft and easy road. Success comes when you accept the bad bits of you…
Oooooooh I love this. It makes me deliriously happy. Shared Worlds (which is a interdisciplinary creative summer school of sorts for teens through Wofford College)Â Â asked writer…
