The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School. (Robert Price)
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| 09 Oct 2020 | Pilot episode | 00:25:17 | |
This practise episode written in lockdown asks the question : Why The Theatre ? Robert can be contacted at robertprice1869@gmail.com | |||
| 10 Oct 2020 | Introduction to the podcast | 00:09:39 | |
In this introductory episode I explain briefly why I've decided to make this podcast and what I want to achieve with it. | |||
| 11 Oct 2020 | Some theories about curriculum...does the Lamda ‘sleazy’ count? | 00:16:22 | |
In this episode we discuss a simple set of views on what curriculums are and what they do.
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| 17 Oct 2020 | Three ideas about whole actor training programmes from The University of Minnesota Conference of 1966. In memoriam Kristen Linklater. | 00:43:42 | |
In Memoriam for Kristen Linklater I read three accounts of whole actor trainings from 1966 by Lee Strasberg, Duncan Ross and Kristen Linklater and discuss a theatre and training in a very different kind of crisis to the one we face today. | |||
| 24 Oct 2020 | Stage Combat in the Drama School: Part One | 00:15:58 | |
An Introduction to an interview with Kristina Soeborg and Jonathan Waller on the subject of Stage Combat in the Drama School. | |||
| 25 Oct 2020 | Stage Combat at the Drama School : A bonus episode (poor sound quality) | 00:31:45 | |
In this bonus episode Robert discusses the history and methodology of stage combat training at Lamda with Jonathan Waller and Kristina Soeborg. This episode was recorded over the phone so - apologies - the sound quality is really poor. | |||
| 30 Oct 2020 | The Drama Centre 1963 - 2022. Annie Tyson. The rise and fall of this influential school. | 01:06:07 | |
In this episode Robert discusses the Drama Centre with Annie Tyson who describes the four pillars of teaching that underpinned the foundation of an acting conservatoire which, along perhaps with the short lived Old Vic School of Michel Saint Denis, could comfortably stake a claim to be the most radically influential institution in the history of professional actor training in the United Kingdom. Annie also talks about the decisions and events which will lead this special and precious school to close its doors in 2022. | |||
| 06 Nov 2020 | RADA. A 'reminiscent chat' with Rosina Filippi at the Academy of Dramatic Art (1911) | 00:44:30 | |
In this episode Robert reads extracts from Rosina Filippi's book Hints to Speakers and Players and discusses her relationship with the important teacher and actor Herman Vezin in order to gain some insight into teaching within the institutions of Edwardian actor training. | |||
| 11 Nov 2020 | James Kemp Part One: Yat Malmgren's application of the Laban Carpenter Method to Actor Training | 01:02:54 | |
In this episode we explore in detail one of the four pillars of the Drama Centre's pedagogy, the Yat Malmgren application of the work of Laban and Carpenter into actor training as Character Analysis, its place at the Drama Centre and Lamda and how that history is drawing to a close. | |||
| 13 Nov 2020 | James Kemp Part Two: Yat Malmgren's application of the Laban Carpenter Method. | 00:51:00 | |
The second part of a conversation with James Kemp. Amongst other things we discuss how Anthony Hopkins marks up his script after reading it several hundred times. | |||
| 18 Nov 2020 | The Central School of Speech and Drama. David Carey Part One. In this episode Robert talks to David Carey, one of Britain's most important and influential Voice and Text teachers. | 00:53:36 | |
In the first of two episodes David discusses his journey towards taking over the Voice teacher training course at The Central School of Speech and Drama in the 1980s. | |||
| 20 Nov 2020 | David Carey Part Two. | 01:04:01 | |
In this episode we continue the conversation with David covering topics including how the Central MA in Voice Studeies evolved and developed and discuss why the Voice faculty of British Drama Schools was so white. If you want to contact Robert about the podcast please do: robertprice1869@gmail.com | |||
| 27 Nov 2020 | Elizabeth Ballinger and the work of Trish Arnold. | 01:27:59 | |
In this episode Lizzie and Robert discuss the work of Trish Arnold, teaching in lockdown and the potential politics of transformation. Lizzie can be contacted at elizabethballinger@yahoo.com and if you would like to talk to Robert : robertprice1869@gmail.com | |||
| 04 Dec 2020 | The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Alan Stanford. The craft of acting. 1966 - 1968 | 01:14:38 | |
In this episode Robert talks to Alan Stanford, Artistic Director of PICT Pittsburgh's Classic Theatre about his training at the Guildhall, King Lear, Beckett and other things besides. Robert can be contacted at robertprice1869@gmail.com Free Friday Webinars: http://www.picttheatre.org/pict-educates/ Our upcoming webinars will cover Theatre Superstitions (Friday, December 4th) and Charles Dickens (December 11). Our current registration links, as well as links to replays of our archived webinars are all available on our PICT Educates page. A Christmas Carol - A PICT Radio Drama: http://www.picttheatre.org/events/a-christmas-carol/ Featuring a cast of Pittsburgh's finest vocal talent, this new adaptation by Alan Stanford will stream December 16-January 3 on Broadway OnDemand. Tickets will be on sale in the next two weeks. | |||
| 25 Dec 2020 | East 15 a history. Gerry McAlpine. | 00:55:59 | |
In this episode, recorded live at East 15 in November 2020, Gerry McAlpine, a graduate of the school and currently head of the First year of the BA and Cert HE, talks about the spirit at the heart of Margaret Walker's drama school, established to promote and develop the ideas and working methods of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. The other voice you will hear sometimes is that of Andrea Brooks who currently runs the MA acting degree at East 15. The photograph is of the pond dug as part of the living history project a good example of East 15's working methods. | |||
| 12 Dec 2020 | The Alexander Technique. Part One. | 01:13:39 | |
In this episode Robert discusses the place of the Alexander Technique in the British Drama School with Alexander Teachers Angie Herzberg and Lou Saucell and voice teacher from Lamda, Italia Conti and the Drama Centre, Alex Bingley. After more than forty years as a fundamental underpinning for the training of students across all the courses that Lamda offered the technique was abruptly cut from the training this year under the leadership of the new director Sarah Frankcom. | |||
| 16 Dec 2020 | Alexander Technique in the Drama School 2. | 00:37:40 | |
In this episode Robert, Angie Herzberg, Lou Saucell and Alex Bingley continue discussing the Alexander Technique within Actor Training. | |||
| 25 Dec 2020 | The First Drama School. Fanny Kelly of Drury Lane. Dean Street 1840. | 00:56:17 | |
In this episode recorded on Christmas Day, Robert recounts the sad tale Fanny Kelly's disastrous attempt to launch the Royalty Theatre and Dramatic School on Dean Street in Soho between 1840 and 1849. This episode includes an account of Samuel Pepys visit to the nursery theatre of George Jolly in 1668. | |||
| 31 Dec 2020 | The Oxford School of Drama. Edward Hicks. Teaching acting for the camera. | 01:22:04 | |
In this episode Robert talks to Ed Hicks newly appointed principal of the Oxford School of Drama. Ed was previously Head of Film at Rada and before that a professional film maker and actor. | |||
| 02 Jan 2021 | An interview with Nadia Kevan: a European perspective on the Alexander Technique | 01:26:08 | |
In this special bonus episode, Alex Bingley, voice teacher, interviews Professor Nadia Kevan about her journey and approach to integrating the Alexander Technique in to the professional training of dancers, actors and singers. Alex Bingley has been a voice teacher since graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2002, prior to this he had been an actor. Alex currently teaches at Rose Bruford, Arts Ed, Drama Centre London and The Italia Conti Academy of theatre arts. Prior to this Alex had taught at Lamda, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and East 15. Alex has been a student of the Alexander technique since 2002 and he encountered the Psycho-Physical Support System through Ron Murdock in 2016 . Alex uses this approach extensively together with his voice teaching and continues to be mentored by Nadia Kevan and one of Dr Chris Stevens students Stephanie Smith. | |||
| 02 Jan 2021 | MIchel Saint-Denis, Susanne Bing and Jacque Copeau...is the British Drama School really French... | 00:56:50 | |
In this edition Robert discusses the deep roots of the British Drama School in the French avant garde and wonders does the modern drama school start under the dome of His Majesty's Theatre or on the left bank of Paris in the Theatre du Vieux Colombier ? | |||
| 06 Jan 2021 | Lamda 1861 - 1969. Stephen Macht. | 01:10:59 | |
In this episode Stephen Macht describes how a chance meeting with Michel Saint Denis after a performance of Danton's Death at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire led him to attend the Lamda of Michael MacOwen and Norman Ayrton in the 1960's, how it was Brian Cox that told him Kennedy had been assassinated and how he returned to Lamda a few years later to research a unique PhD dissertation about the history of acting teaching at the school. | |||
| 23 Jan 2021 | Rada's director Edward Kemp resigns and Michel Saint-Denis' ‘Theatre the Discovery of Style’ Part Two. | 01:08:43 | |
| 26 Jan 2021 | Abigail Rokison-Woodall. Shakespearean Verse Speaking. How do we know what we think we know and where did it come from? | 01:02:15 | |
ABIGAIL ROKISON-WOODALL
Abigail began her career as a professional actor, training at LAMDA. She completed her PhD at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in 2006 after which she became a lecturer in Drama and English in the Education Faculty in Cambridge. In January 2013 she became Lecturer in Shakespeare and Theatre at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Abigail has written a number of journal articles and chapters on Shakespeare and other drama. Her first monograph, Shakespearean Verse Speaking, was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press, and won the inaugural Shakespeare’s Globe first book award. She has published three more books - Shakespeare for Young People: Productions, Versions and Adaptations (Bloomsbury Arden, 2013) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner (Bloomsbury Arden, 2017) and As You Like It: Language and Writing (Bloomsbury Arden, 2021). She is the co-general editor with Michael Dobson and Simon Russell Beale of The Arden Shakespeare Performance Editions for which she has edited A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet and is currently editing King Lear. She is also co-general editor of the Arden Shakespeare in Performance A Practical Guide series, for which she is co-writing Shakespeare and Lecoq. She is currently working with RSC Education on a project about teaching Shakespeare to D/deaf children. | |||
| 01 Feb 2021 | When was Rada. Opening night... | 01:10:31 | |
In this episode we look at the decline of the Stock System the emergence of the Long Run and what was said at the opening ceremony of 'Mr Tree's School' the Academy of Dramatic Art on April 25th 1904. The image is of His Majesty’s Theatre where his school began before moving to its current location in Bloomsbury. | |||
| 09 Feb 2021 | The Meisner Technique. Philippa Strandberg-Long. | 02:00:47 | |
In this episode Robert discusses the Meisner Technique its practise and place in the British Drama School with Dr Philippa Strandberg-Long. In 2011 Philippa began her service in the Italia Conti faculty, which she continued for nearly a decade. During her time at Italia Conti she co-created their Foundation course programme, whilst undertaking practical research on the Meisner technique, devising and developing a number of her own exercises along with a pedagogical foundation to underpin the technique. Philippa received her MA in Actor Training from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2012, specialising in the teaching of the Meisner technique. In 2016 Philippa was awarded a full 3-year PhD scholarship from the University of Kent to study the Meisner technique and the psychology of attention. During this time, she combined her research activities with teaching and directing, allowing her to see the practical effects of her studies and providing valuable empirical data for her research. Philippa’s doctorate was awarded in early 2020, and her research has significantly furthered our understanding of the Meisner technique and its interplay with attention, self-consciousness, action-perception theory and mind-wandering. Her articles have been published in the UK, Europe and the US, and some of them in association with practitioners such as the late William Esper and the renowned Stanislavski scholar Sharon Carnicke. In 2019 and 2020 Philippa was the Course Leader and Head of Acting of Fourth Monkey’s two-year actor training programme – a programme underpinned by the ethos of Meisner’s principles and the concept of ‘play’. She continues to develop both her research profile and her studio practice, always putting the individual’s creative potential in focus. She is currently lead acting tutor on Rose Bruford’s MA in Actor and Performance Training.
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| 19 Feb 2021 | Central appoints a new principal and the strange history of the Rank Charm School. | 00:55:17 | |
In this episode we congratulate the new principal of Central Josette Bushell-Mingo on her appointment and look back on the brief and curious history of the Company of Youth also known as the Rank Charm School. And it’s principal the much mocked Molly Terraine | |||
| 22 Feb 2021 | The meaning of ensemble in the History of British Theatre. Phillipa Burt. | 01:38:37 | |
A wide ranging conversation with Dr Phillipa Burt about ensemble theatre, its place in the history of British Theatre and the relationship between that story and ideas within the Drama School. Burt, Philippa. 2018. From the Western Front to the East Coast: Barker's Trojan Women in the USA. New Theatre Quarterly, 34(4), pp. 326-338. ISSN 0266-464X Burt, Philippa. 2016. 'The Merry Wives of Moscow' Komisarjevsky, Shakespeare and Russophobia in the British Theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 32(4), pp. 375-390. ISSN 0266-464X Burt, Philippa. 2014. Punishing the Outsiders: Theatre Workshop and the Arts Council. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 5(2), pp. 119-130. ISSN 1944-3927 Burt, Philippa. 2012. Granville Barker’s Ensemble as a Model of Fabian Theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 28(4), pp. 307-324. ISSN 0266-464X | |||
| 03 Mar 2021 | Ros Steen and the voice work of Nadine George. Tradition and Evolution. | 01:25:59 | |
A conversation with Professor Ros Steen. Ros Steen has worked as a Voice specialist for Theatre, Film and TV for over thirty five years with more than two hundred and fifty credits to her name including work for, among many others, the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, Citizens’ Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Royal Lyceum, Dundee Rep and Leeds Playhouse. She is an Emeritus Professor of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she led the Centre for Voice in Performance establishing Nadine George Voice Work, with its emphasis on the unique connection between an individual and their voice, as the core spoken technique in the training of actors and performers. One of the first accredited teachers of the technique she has spent many years pioneering its use as a medium of professional rehearsal practice. She was the first Visiting Scholar to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University where she worked with the multi-award winning director John Tiffany. Landmark productions include Alan Cumming’s Macbeth (UK and Broadway) and BlackWatch (National Theatre of Scotland) as well as the premières of plays by David Harrower, David Greig, Linda Mclean, Rona Munro and Nicola McCartney, among others. In 2019 she gave a joint presentation with writer A.L.Kennedy to the Akademie de Kunst in Berlin on the connection between the voice work and writing. Since leaving RCS she has continued to work on productions in and outside Scotland as well as giving master classes and workshops nationally and internationally for a variety of creative practitioners. She is the Editor of Growing Voices: Nadine George Technique – the Evolution of its Influence in Training and Performance and has published several research papers about her work. She is currently a director of Voice Studio International and an Associate Editor of the International Dialects of English Archive.
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| 08 Mar 2021 | Ben Naylor: Why do Shakespeare? | 01:45:44 | |
In a conversation with Ben Naylor we discuss acting Shakespeare, beyond concerns with metre and prosody, along with exploring the place and status of post graduate courses within the conservatoire. | |||
| 17 Mar 2021 | The Institute for Contemporary Theatre. A new movement in the training of actors. | 01:02:20 | |
In this episode we discuss new models and ideas for the training of actors with Principal Thomasina Unsworth and Head of Acting Phillip Edgerley of Brighton's new Institute for Contemporary Theatre. | |||
| 20 Mar 2021 | Going on the Stage. An introduction to the history of accreditation in the UK Drama School. | 00:42:14 | |
As we move towards a kind of deregulation of Actor training we establish the relationship between the CDD and NCDT find out how they relate to the Gulbenkian Report and discover what happened to Drama UK. | |||
| 02 Apr 2021 | Training in the drama school. Liberation or oppression? A round table conversation between Sarah Weston, Naz Yeni, King Boateng, Che Francis, Isabella Verrico and Robert Price. | 01:58:45 | |
Isabella Verrico, King Boateng, Naz Yeni, Che Francis and Robert Price participate in a conversation about the possibilities and risks of training in the Drama School recorded on Saturday 27th April 2021. The discussion was facilitated by Dr. Sarah Weston of The University of Bolton. | |||
| 03 Apr 2021 | Michael Balogun and Rada; an actor's journey. | 01:00:59 | |
A conversation about acting and training, choices and chances with the actor Michael Balogun, who graduated from Rada in 2017. | |||
| 11 Apr 2021 | What training - for What Theatre...the view from 1995. | 01:07:50 | |
In this episode we revisit Clive Barker’s essay from 1995: What Training - for What Theatre? And wonder how far we have come in the intervening 27 years. | |||
| 17 Apr 2021 | Sarah Thorne's School of Acting in Margate 1885 - 1899 | 01:03:10 | |
An investigation into the only consistently successful institutional actor training of the 19th Century: Sarah Thorne’s Theatre Royal in Margate including an account of Winnifred Dolan’s training there in 1890. | |||
| 24 Apr 2021 | Tanmay Dhanania. An international student at Rada. | 01:17:21 | |
Tanmay Dhanania is an actor. He studied Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley and then trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He has acted in UK tv shows like New Tricks for the BBC, Indian Summers for Channel 4 and The Durrells in Corfu for itv. He has also acted in and produced independent films like Brahman Naman which premiered in competition at Sundance 2016 and became India's first Netflix Original and Garbage which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2018 and also was acquired by Netflix. Tanmay acted in and produced the film Cat Sticks which won the Jury Award at the Slamdance Film Festival 2019 and is currently on MUBI. Tanmay is also a theatre maker and artist and has acted in stage productions and taught theatre around the world. He has a green belt in Goju Ryu karate, and loves animals, travelling and playing the flute. | |||
| 01 May 2021 | In which Lamda is awarded degree awarding powers and we read a letter from a listener. | 00:57:21 | |
The image is of candidates for the Academy of Dramatic Art auditioning in 1911. | |||
| 26 May 2021 | Oliver Neville and the training of the actor at Rada and Julliard in 1991. | 00:37:25 | |
In Memoriam Oliver Neville 1929 - 2021. Rada's Principal from 1984 to 1993. | |||
| 05 Jun 2021 | The London Theatre Studio. 1936 - 1939. | 00:57:26 | |
In which we look to understand something about the nature of the London Theatre Studio the school founded by Michel Saint Denis in a disused Methodist Chapel in Islington in 1936. | |||
| 16 Jun 2021 | Ailun Zhou : Huang Zuolin at The London Theatre Studio. | 00:32:56 | |
In which a special guest tells us the story of how a young Chinese Couple became amongst the tiny number of people who studied at the London Theatre Studio in Islington just before the outbreak of the Second World War and of how they brought the ideas and pedagogy of Copeau and Suzanne Bing to the People’s Republic of China. | |||
| 20 Jun 2021 | Shakespeare. The first lesson: Henry Vezin in 1897. | 00:48:33 | |
| 24 Jul 2021 | Stanislavsky and Shakespeare (and Saint Denis). | 00:35:31 | |
In which we read Saint Denis’ essay on the application of the Stanislavsky approach, and it’s American interpretation as the method, to the plays of Shakespeare…and perhaps understand something about the ideas underpinning the teaching at the LTS and the Old Vic School. The image is of Susanne Bing as Viola. | |||
| 25 Jul 2021 | Stanislavsky and Benedetti : A history of the Hapgood translation. | 01:06:21 | |
In which we discuss Jean Benedetti; Rose Bruford and Lamda’s recent NSS results and why Stanislavsky really wrote his books. | |||
| 31 Jul 2021 | Hiding in plain sight. Stanislavsky in translation part II. | 00:48:57 | |
This episode includes an extract from Vladimir Mirodan’s excellent paper The first class: Harold Lang and the beginnings of Stanislavskian teaching in the British conservatoire. | |||
| 06 Aug 2021 | Gielgud’s response to An Actor Prepares. A bonus edition. | 00:11:16 | |
In which we read John Gielgud’s views on Stanislavsky. From January 1937. | |||
| 06 Aug 2021 | Marowitz at Lamda in 1956. Callow at The Drama Centre 1970 and a brief history of the Ds. | 01:06:33 | |
In which we compare two experiences of the British Drama School and prepare for conversations about Doreen Cannon. | |||
| 10 Aug 2021 | Sarah Frankcom resigns from Lamda. | 00:09:06 | |
| 18 Aug 2021 | John Beschizza and Annie Tyson discuss Doreen Cannon. | 01:21:57 | |
In which we talk about Doreen Cannon. One of the most important figures in the history of British Actor training. With very special guests Annie Tyson and John Bechizza. He trained at The Drama Centre under co-founders Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and the legendary Acting Tutor and first Head of Acting, Doreen Cannon – three of the most innovative and rigorous theatre practitioners and teachers of the 20th century. The challenges of training at the Drama Centre were immense; the rewards were life-changing. It was here that some of the greatest discoveries were made under the guidance of Doreen, who as Head of Acting at RADA in 1994 offered John the opportunity to teach Acting at RADA. The techniques he provides are simple, clear and specific and when fully engaged evoke a visceral gut, heart and head understanding of the acting process. He works for one goal: to guide the actor-trainee into transforming their raw, instinctive talent into real, dependable skill. John maintains a standard of excellence in his work, evident through the specificity and rigour of his teaching. Over 27 years, this has developed into a highly practical way of working that serves the ever-changing requirements and challenges of today’s industry. Annie Tyson Annie read Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University before training at Drama Centre London where Doreen Cannon was amongst her teachers. She worked as an actor in regional theatre, in London and in TV and radio. Recent acting work has included work at the Octagon Theatre Bolton in Arthur Miller’s The Last Yankee, the White Bear Theatre in An Honourable Man and the Park Theatre in Hell Yes, I’m Tough Enough. At Drama Centre London she was Course Director of the BA Honours Acting Course 2002-2010. Her public productions there included All’s Well That Ends Well, Wild Oats, Mary Stuart, A Laughing Matter, Love’s Labours Lost, Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Mother Courage. She continued as an acting tutor and director there until Spring 2018 while also working at RADA. She directed Love For Love in the Vanbrugh theatre in 2013and Strange Orchestra in 2017. She directed Macbeth February 2020. She was part of the core team for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s project Open Stages, running acting workshops for Dream 16 – A Play For the Nation. She has given masterclasses in Restoration Comedy at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama where she directed The Rivals in 2012. She has contributed to the book Approaches to Actor Training and her book for the Crowood Press, Successful Auditions will be published next spring. She is writing for the next series of Arden Performance Handbooks for Bloomsbury Methuen: Shakespeare and Stanislavsky. She regularly gives both classical and contemporary audition workshops for The Mono Box of which she is a Patronand is an Open Door mentor.
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| 28 Aug 2021 | Penny Cherns. | 01:35:26 | |
In which we discuss the professional life of Penny Cherns. | |||
| 31 Aug 2021 | Ita O'Brien. Developing an ethical approach to intimate content. | 01:36:31 | |
In which we discuss the career of teacher and intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien and understand why Michaela Coel chose to thank Ita for her work when she won the leading actress award at the 2021 Baftas. Best practice when working with intimacy, simulated sex scenes, and nudity
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| 23 Sep 2021 | Andrei Biziorek : Nicolai Demidov and The Pedagogy of the Future. | 01:27:21 | |
In which we discuss Nicolai Demidov and his School of Acting with Andrei Biziorek of the Demidov Studio London. The association: www.demidovassociation.com | |||
| 23 Sep 2021 | Nicolai Demidov: Some thoughts on Pedagogy. | 00:20:59 | |
In which we prepare for a new term by reading Chapter 8 of Nicolai Demidov’s book ‘The Art of Living Onstage From a Theatre Teacher’s Laboratory Translated by Andrei Malaev-Babel and Alexandra Rojavin. The association: www.demidovassociation.com | |||
| 27 Sep 2021 | East 15 Acting School at Sixty. | 00:30:35 | |
In which we celebrate the Sixtieth Birthday of East 15 in the first of two special podcasts. The cover shows blossom in the grounds of the Debden campus earlier this year. | |||
| 30 Sep 2021 | East 15 at Sixty. The first two years. Philip Hedley. | 01:25:30 | |
In which we discuss how Philip Hedley came to join the first cohort of East 15 Acting School in the autumn of 1961 and examine something of the complex relationship between the school, it’s founder Maggie Bury and the work of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop. | |||
| 21 Oct 2021 | The Drama School and The University. | 00:46:54 | |
In which we think about Drama Schools and University Drama Departments and work our way through ‘Falling Off A Wall: Degrees of Change in British Actor Training’ Ben Frankombe's essential paper on the History of Actor Training between the 1970s and the early 2000s. | |||