Ambitious Actor? We Found You an Award to Chase!

The Alan Bates Award is for a talented drama graduate:- 

https://www.actorscentre.co.uk/opportunities/alan-bates-award

This opportunity came up on The Actors Centre website.  Here's a bit more about the award, from their website:-

"ABOUT:  Sir Alan Bates was the Patron of the Actors Centre from 1994 until his death in 2004. He cared passionately about the craft of acting and about the cause of young actors entering the profession. The Alan Bates Award was endowed to commemorate his inspirational work on behalf of the Actors Centre and will be awarded annually to an actor of exceptional talent."The Alan Bates Award comprises of a generous prize bundle designed to equip the winning graduate with everything they will need to launch themselves as a professional working actor. Along with the Actors Centre’s vast range of professional development workshops and courses the winner will receive headshots, showreel and voice-reel, a professionally built website, subscriptions with the biggest industry organisations in in the land, styling, mentorship and many more industry essentials. As an Actors Centre member, they will also be joining a community of professional actors with whom they can network and collaborate.... [Read the whole page] "

https://www.actorscentre.co.uk/ 

Access to Theatre for Deaf Actors - Jenny Sealey writes for The Stage magazine

We spotted this in The Stage today.  It will be of interest to our BSL actors, but it should, actually, be of interest and concern to everyone! Take a look ...

Jenny Sealey: Access is a key part of the artistic endeavour

"Jenny Sealey is the artistic director of Graeae, an inclusive company committed to accessible theatre." (29.07.2016)         

Actor, or Wannabe? Book Review on Becoming an Actor

Do you keep an eye on Academia.edu? It's one of the social media sites specially for scholarly types interested in research publications and activities. Today, we spotted a book review for a book we actually have here in the Whittaker Library - Becoming an Actor, by Thomasina Unsworth.  Aimed at people entering drama school, it looks like an ideal read for people just starting along the road to an acting career.

If you'd like to read Stephe Harrop's book review on Academia.edu, click here.  Or if you're one of our staff or students in Glasgow, just head straight for the shelves!  Here.

We're in Trimester 3 now, so our opening hours are basically 9-5, Monday to Friday.  The library website will keep you right, but do check with us in advance if you're travelling a distance, just in case there are any one-off changes.

Whittaker Library website

Do You Teach Acting? Or Theatre Studies?

Staff and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can make use of one of our electronic resources, Digital Theatre Plus, to find a Henrik Ibsen Teacher Kit, with loads of useful resources.

If you're a registered student or member of staff at RCS, please use your usual login to access this valuable material.  Here's the link.  (If you're off-campus, you will have to log in.  If you're in the building, you'll get direct access.)

"We continue our Henrik Ibsen season with our themed transcripts on performing, directing and interpeting Ibsen.
"Next week brings us the second of Ibsen's great heroines with Nora from A Doll's House, as played by the award-winning Hattie Morahan."

• Digital Theatre Plus - you won't know what you're missing till you visit it! https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/

Conservatoire Actors: hear Anna Madeley on Acting

We're justifiably proud of our subscription to Digital Theatre Plus.  Today, we share another great interview uploaded to the service.  Staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can log on to view Anna Madeley's interview, using their usual RCS login.

Anna Madeley played Elizabeth Proctor in Yaël Farber's acclaimed production of The Crucible at The Old Vic.
Anna describes how integrity is essential to her character, the role Mary Warren plays in her secluded life, and the rehearsal exercises used to build intimacy between John and Elizabeth in performance.
On Acting: Anna Madeley - Full Transcript (PDF 181.52 KB)

Teach performance using Digital Theatre Plus!

 For drama staff and students

Jack Lowden is a fast-rising British actor, currently starring alongside Kristen Scott Thomas in Electra at London's world-renowned Old Vic Theatre. Jack's break-out role came just earlier this year when he played Oswald opposite Lesley Manville in Sir Richard Eyre's West End production of Ibsen's Ghosts. Both Jack and Lesley won Olivier Awards 2014 for their starring roles, and both have filmed exclusive interviews for Digital Theatre Plus with invaluable advice on acting and performance. Its well worth a look!

On Acting: Jack Lowden

Jack discusses how playing a role like Oswald enables an actor to demonstrate a rich spectrum of attitudes and emotions, how much the text allows for freedom of interpretation, and why, for a performer, confidence is key.

 Watch the interview with Jack Lowden now

       

Culture Professionals Network (via the Guardian)

Culture Professionals Network

This is an initiative with the Guardian newspaper.  It looks really interesting, and the website is appealingly well laid-out.

For example, today there's information about touring theatre: In it together: reinventing the theatre touring model. 

Do take a look!

The Voice Explained - another useful website

http://www.thevoiceexplained.com/

If you're at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - do take a look and let us know what you think of this website.  Is it helpful?

Getting into Character

Queen Victoria's diaries

Are you an actor getting into character for a play set in the Victorian age?

Queen Victoria's personal journals are now available digitally.  BBC news item here.  (A nice, Royal story appropriate for the Jubilee!)

'We kissed each'
The intimate side of the queen is revealed through an entry after her marriage to Prince Albert in February 1840.  She wrote of her new husband: "He clasped me in his arms, and we kissed each other again and again!
"Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am."