The Casting Scene is a new online casting service for the entertainment industries. Actors can enjoy a
At the V&A Museum on 31 October. 6.30 – 10.00pm.
The Vienna Theatre Project needs a director for their play, A Moment On the Lips by Australian playwright, Jonathan Gavin. The play of 7 women, has already been cast and they need a director immediately. Please contact Sharron Aubrey for information: sea_zutron@hotmail.com.
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Todd Kramer and Dan Brown are starting up their IMPROVISATION CLASS again. Contact: kramer.todd@gmail. com for details
Another monologue from Copenhagen. For some reason I can only upload them one at a time. This one performed by Christine Papadakis, is particularly poignant I think. I was please with the way the exercise turned out.
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Here is a sample of some of the original work generated in the Copenhagen class. Actors were asked to relate not their own story, but a classmate’s story of a childhood trauma.
MARKETING FOR ACTORS…
Don’t blame your agent if you’re not getting work. The Internet is the great democratizer, offering free publicity for everyone. There are so many ways for actors to get themselves and their work seen. Because of websites, clever search engines and You Tube, actors are more and more successful in promoting themselves. In November I’m teaching two MARKETING FOR ACTORS SEMINARS in LONDON and GLASGOW.
There’s a also a new website, The Casting Scene, that is enabling actors to send their castings directly to productions.
LONDON: Wed, 26 November. 3pm-5pm. The Actor’s Centre
GLASGOW: Fri, 28 November. 5pm-7pm. University of Strathclyde Student Union
For Details about MARKETING FOR ACTORS click here
COPENHAGEN DISCOUNTS
The one day seminar in Copenhagen is now only 40 EUR for the day, and 15 EUR for the Casting Symposium with Jorn Faurshou, Anders Nygaard, and Tommy Duus. The seminar will cover topics on how actors can market themselves internationally. Click here for info.
Next week-end I’m looking forward to being in Paris, where my agent friend, Rosy, has a host of great actors lined up for me to work with. www.agencerosylary.fr
COPENHAGEN:
I can’t wait for my Copenhagen class which starts 29 Sept. It will be my first five day master class and I’m really looking forward to digging my teeth into the material with actors. It looks like we’ll have a great class with people coming from a far as Athens and Sweden. I’ve never seen Copenhagen and it looks beautiful. I’ve always been so impressed with the talent that comes from Denmark. Considering that they’re a small country, they have a prominent body of internationally known actors, and directors.
COLD, RAINY SCOTLAND AT LEAST HAS SOME GREAT CULTURE TO WARM THE SOUL.
Anyone who is even slightly interested in dance would be foolish to miss HAMLET EPISODE, playing at 8pm at the Roxburgh Hotel. I don’t know what it has to do with Hamlet but it doesn’t matter. These Korean dancers are innumerable… once you’re sure you’ve seen all of them, another several dancers seem to hurl themselves onto the stage. The choreographer began with a distinctive vocabulary of movement, featuring actors swinging in and out of each other’s arms, but then just as abruptly changed the motif entirely, alternating between combinations in which the dancers were violently cutting up the space, to gently caressing it. It’s a stunning combination of dance and gymnastics. See it!
On Saturday night I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Roslyn Chapel. It’s worth the drive outside of town, just to see Roslyn Chapel alone. I never thought this production would manage a three-handed Romeo and Juliet but somehow they did. The production was very cleverly adpated, with strong, energetic performances from Louise Bolton, Stuart Nicoll and Cameron Mowatt, each playing at least twelve parts each.
On Saturday night I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Roslyn Chapel. It’s worth the drive outside of town, just to see Roslyn Chapel alone. I never thought this production would manage a three-handed Romeo and Juliet but somehow they did. The production was very cleverly adpated, with strong, energetic performances from Louise Bolton, Stuart Nicoll and Cameron Mowatt, each playing at least twelve parts each.
LADIES IN WAITING is doing a show called BROWNIE RE-UNION. The three of them are hilarious physical comedians and they’re doing all of their own fresh, devised material. For anyone who is American, the series of sketches might remind you of the Carol Burnett show. They’ve gotten some four star reviews so their houses are filling up quickly. See them at 4.45 at the Baby Grand in the Pleasance Courtyard. Gaz Corke, who has done a lot of straight acting to this point is destined for a comedic career. Charolotte Palmer and Carolina Giametta are like a young Saunders and French.
I’ll be teaching an intensive five day masterclass in beautiful Copenhagen 29 Sept – 3 October. The first day will be open to all interested actors and will include in depth information about actor marketing on the international market. Danish film professionals will take part as well. Director, John Faurshou, www.faurschou.dk, and casting directors Anders Nygarsd, (www.casteriet.dk) Tommy Duus, www.dask-online.dk.
For the remaining four days, I will teach an exclusive class for fourteen students that will end with each actor developing material in English that can be added to a show reel. To apply please contact Hakim Harder at hh@hakimharder.com. Click here for details.
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