Theatre's biggest stars speak exclusively to Digital Theatre Plus

THEATRE LIVES How They Got To Where They Are ... Staff and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland know that we're proud to subscribe to Digital Theatre Plus, because there's so much great content.  Here's a taster of what's new on the website:- DT+ are proud to announce that Theatre Lives, a series of exclusive in-depth conversations with some of the biggest names in theatre, is now available exclusively on the platform. In this series of revealing 40 to 60-minute interviews, Fiona Lindsay (Creative Director, Digital Theatre+) speaks candidly with practitioners about their educational backgrounds and the shaping of their careers. The series includes conversations with: Adrian Lester Juliet Stevenson Michael Grandage Julie Walters Imelda Staunton As part of the Theatre Lives series, DT+ subscribers will get access to all 5 full interviews, adding to the 340 video and audio productions, 200 interviews and 80 study guides already available. RCS staff and students can access all this material by visiting our e-resources website and clicking on the link they'll find there!  (You'll need to use your institutional login if you're not on campus.  Find the Royal Conservatoire in the list of colleges and universities, then use your usual login.)  Search on THEATRE LIVES.

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)

Performing Arts, Whittaker-Library Style

From time to time we share interesting weblinks for our developing artists.

Like these from the Guardian's Culture Professionals blog :- 

• from the Guardian, Top Tips for your Acting CV
• Career Tips for Opera Singers 
• Disability arts: the challenge of ensuring creative momentum

Spotlight on The Stage - they have a new Website!

Actors, have you see The Stage's new website yet?  

The magazine has been core reading for theatrical people since 1880.  They've been online for ages, of course, but now they have a shiny new website:-

https://www.thestage.co.uk/

 Theatre News, Reviews, Interviews ...

Actors - get in Character with some 18th Century London Riots

BBC iPlayer features "Voices from the Old Bailey":

'Ordinary Londoners caught up in violence on the streets tell their story, and rioters argue their case in court, desperately attempting to avoid the noose.'

Be quick!  iPlayer recordings don't last forever.  Might provide useful context if you're acting in a play set in 18th century London.

Doric Dictionary

http://www.doricdictionary.com/

 'Whittaker' found this link en route to the office.  A Doric Dictionary looks just the kind of thing Scots actors and musicians might find useful - vocabulary from the North East of Scotland.

Inclusive Arts Practices (Tues 16 April)

Inclusive Arts Practices: implications for Higher Education learning and teaching

 

9:30am - 4:30pm, Tue 16 April 2013
Alexander Gibson Opera Studio
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 3DBT

Higher Education Academy
Discipline Workshop & Seminar Series, 2012-13

Designed to bring together disabled and non-disabled performing artists, teachers and learners, this one day seminar tackles the often difficult issues surrounding inclusive arts. Practitioners and thinkers in the field, including Solar Bear, Caroline Bowditch and Drake Music Scotland, share their experiences and seek to kick-start the development of a manifesto for disability performing arts education.

Themes will include:

• Pathways for talented disabled young actors/musicians to performing arts HEI's
• Training deaf actors
• Ethical and pedagogical implications of inclusive arts practice
• Creating an inclusive aesthetic

All places are free but must be booked at rsvpevents@rcs.ac.uk.

A draft schedule is available on booking.

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/Seminars/Disciplines_AH/GEN290_RCS

Wheelchair accessible building.
Sign Language Interpretation will be available throughout the day.


Contact Dr Anna Birch a.birch@rcs.ac.uk for further information.

International Women's Day in the Performing Arts

'Whittaker', being a performing arts library, wishes to commemorate International Women's Day as it particularly affects the performing arts.  Do share any relevant links with us!

Here's the first - on the UN Women website, we find the One Woman Song.

Glasgow Women's Library is up early today with a blogpost by Magi.  (Not, admittedly, performing arts, but certainly women and libraries.)

The Musicians' Union posts details of the Women of the World music festival on Sunday 9th March, here.

Have you come across Women in Music? It's a national organisation: http://www.womeninmusic.org.uk/

There's also an International Alliance for Women in Music: 
http://iawm.org/




If you tweet, you might like to follow the #EverydaySexism hashtag, a project which was featured by the BBC a couple of days ago.

There's a London Concert for International Women's Day: the London Oriana Choir has a concert of music by women composers, at St Andrews Holborn tonight:-
http://www.londonoriana.com/current-season/

What's missing from this list?  Drama and theatre!  Please share any relevant links! 

India Today features TV star Toral Rasputra aka Anandi of Balika Vadhu, telling us what International Women's Day means to her. Read it here.

Meanwhile, Bollywood salutes the spirit of women, in the Indian Express today.  Here ...

At 9.45 pm on a Friday night, a good blogger doesn't just arbitrarily stop blogging.  Three cheers for the collective of researchers at the University of Sussex, who this evening notified me of their Reframing Activism blog.  Today they were highlighting the British Library's first oral history archive of the early days of feminism: Sisterhood and After.  Not content with one good blogpost today, they also hosted a guest blogpost by film-maker, actor and musician Jodi Nelson: Feminist Social Media Praxis. Jodi was asked a provocative question: "re_activism:What do you think the 21st century feminist looks likes?"

 

Blogging lite - links for musicians, actors, dancers, trad Scots

While off, I haven’t blogged at length.  However, I’ve blogged links instead, just to keep the pages fresh.  Scroll down to find a rich variety of subject matter!  

• The Voice Explained, 
• The Bullet-Proof Musician, 
• Healthy Musicians (a link from Chicago), 
• the Scottish Society of Playwrights, 
• National Chamber Music Day, 
• the Clarsach Society Young Composer Award, 
• Basse Danse,
• and a link to a bit of trivia about a piper called Wanton Watty McAulay of Port Glasgow.  (Well, with a name like that, who wouldn’t?!)