Sonnets Trailer Passion in Practice

So Passion in Practice will have a new life in May. For anyone interested the fb group page has all the information. True to actorly form we have no idea what that month will bring in the form of employment. (Do now. 30.3.11)

Several sonnets are featured in this trailer. Dave and Ben are seen on the still shot below taken during the stick game we used for warm-up. Correction we misidentified the stick. This still is actually from forum work on 2 Gents.

We (I feel royal when I write) really enjoyed the workshop and wish it were part of our weekly life. Motivated actors are like young children playing. Delight is the prominent feeling.

Depression is its opposite and the curse of many of our ilk. In part Will Shakespeare helped us through and out of our depressed years. We look back now and see a life lived. We look forward and see a life yet to be lived.

One day these words will stop and that is the most terrifying truth a human has to live with. The yet still undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns. All our truths and lies exposed to that great book of judgement Time is holding.

And what is it all for? Why wonder about a beginning and an end when we have tectonic plates and continental shift theory?

Sorry got a little heavy there. But Instant news has repercussions. We are reminded today of our passion in practice sesh and immediately laughter comes to mind. Don’t forget it is a roomful of thesps doing Shakespeare.

We all know how to keep our mouths shut and listen and do but you can’t keep actors quiet for too long and that leads to winding one another up. This giddy occupation is done a stealthily as it ever was at primary school. Sometimes the get it out of your system giggles is necessary.

We also paid close attention to the verse allowing it to suggest the pauses and stresses and breaths. Weighing each word with the testing of it. If you don’t think the line was delivered correctly, you do it.

Learning to see the broader through-line of the scene, act, play that each character follows in that exact moment that he is saying his words. Ambition is a mighty motivator. And our fellows in our group were and are motivated.

From the workshop, all we know currently of these excellent playmates is Dave’s in Hollywood, Di is back in London, Dan, Warren and Laura fb, Jaz (you’re gonna make it, yar) and Jamie (love you man) no contact, and Nat just did a 6 person Makkers. Ben and us is mates.

COz that’s the other side of an actor’s professional life. They bond in undying terror, form a group with its own dynamics, swear loyalty and fidelity in continued friendship and contact. Then life gets in the way.

It’s thanks to fb and the internet that we can stay in touch as little as we do. We’ve had hundreds of situations in our growing years when this medium existeth not.

Our father had crystal radio sets and early 78 record players, so his son could have 45’s and 33’s and 8 Track cassettes and VHS Video tapes, so his son could have HD TV, DVD’s CD’s, and the internet where fealty is lost as quickly as an e-mail identity.

Alles zerfliesst wie eitelschaum. Same shit, different medium.

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