pedantic nuthatch

Updated: 2/28/06; 20:47:51

Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Books, movies, art, theater, conservation, and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.

Latest movie scores [5 max] ::: 3 The Player (1992) ::: 3 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) ::: 5 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring (2003) ::: 4 A Face in the Crowd (1957) ::: 2 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) ::: 3 Porco Rosso (1992) ::: 3 My Neighbor Totoro (1988) ::: 2 Vera Cruz (1954) ::: 4 Out of the Past (1947) ::: 4 Schindler's List (1993)

Thursday, 23 February 2006

Leta gets a paragraph all to herself in Michael Toscano's notice of her show, I Never Sang for My Father.

posted: 9:08:51 AM

If I had the time and money to devote, here are the classes I would take to help me become a better actor:

Voice and breath support: I still need help developing power and volume, though I think I'm getting better at it. My voice sometimes gets lost in the CenterStage theater, especially when I'm positioned upstage.
At the Studio Theatre's school, there is a class called Character and Emotion, known more informally as Crying on Cue.
Working with a mask: how can you convey character without words, without your eyes?
Shakespeare, a lifelong study.
Anything that improves my awareness of what I'm doing with my body, and that opens up new possibilities. I'm tall, and naturally head-centered, so I have an unfortunate tendency to hunch over on stage, like Snoopy's vulture persona.

Dialects and vocal qualities I do okay with: I have a couple passable American Southerns, a Cockney, and a British RP (BBC English). What I don't do well are Celtics and Brooklyn.

posted: 8:19:03 AM

Today is National Chili Day, at least at Hard Times. Get a free bowl with purchase.

posted: 7:48:50 AM