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	<title>The Acting Blog &#187; Acting Technique</title>
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		<title>Top Books on Acting</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/17/top-books-on-acting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most books on acting are complete nonsense, these are the books that I personally recommend: True and False -David Mamet Practical Handbook for the Actor &#8211; Bruder et Al. Action &#8211; The Actor&#8217;s Thesaurus &#8211; Lloyd-Williams and Calderone. The Power of the Actor &#8211; Ivana Chubbuck The Intent to Live &#8211; Larry Moss The Monologue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpt from An Interview with Mark Westbrook</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/16/excerpt-from-an-interview-with-mark-westbrook/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/16/excerpt-from-an-interview-with-mark-westbrook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview with Mark Westbrook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interview I did a while ago (but didn&#8217;t end up getting published)&#8230; It&#8217;s just an excerpt.  Hope you enjoy it. When I met Mark Westbrook to interview him, he was not how I imagined him to be.  Some of the pictures on his website show a rotund bearded man, in his 30s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Method Acting and Practical Aesthetics: What&#8217;s the Difference?</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/10/method-acting-and-practical-aesthetics-whats-the-difference/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/10/method-acting-and-practical-aesthetics-whats-the-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meisner method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Method Acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strasberg Method]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For Oliver. One of my students asked about the difference between Method Acting and Practical Aesthetics: First off, let&#8217;s make clear a point of similarity. All acting techniques have the same goal, to produce truthful acting by freeing the actor from self-consciousness and physical tension. A second point is that they are both derived from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Truth</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/07/the-beauty-of-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/07/the-beauty-of-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acting truthfully]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=1745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love watching performance. There&#8217;s something magical that I&#8217;m drawn to in the actor&#8217;s art of storytelling. But most of the time, I confess, what I see is little short of rubbish. Sometimes the play is intellectual at the cost of the story, sometimes the ideas thrust upon the actors by the director are faulty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/06/the-other-2/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/06/the-other-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=1739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“The best way to be in contact with the audience is to be in close relationship with the other characters in the play” Stanislavski The Other is the most important person in your scene. For Stanislavski, the Other was the other characters, but for us, the Other are the actors in your scene. By placing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Say the Lines</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/05/just-say-the-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/05/just-say-the-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[just say the lines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My experiences as a writer are that given enough rope, the actors will labour the lines to death.  They&#8217;ve also develop an assumption through popular culture or training that they are superior to the words in some way, and can (and often do) request changes to the text based on &#8216;what sounds better&#8217; or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehearsal: A Demonstration of Excess and Waste</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/02/rehearsal-a-demonstration-of-excess-and-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/08/02/rehearsal-a-demonstration-of-excess-and-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How long should rehearsals be?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rehearsal process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rehearsal technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wasting time in rehearsal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what do we do in rehearsal?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our rehearsal process is a demonstration of excess and waste.  We often waste the three weeks of rehearsal common to most subsidised shows by fannying about for two weeks and then panicking like crazy for the final week.  It&#8217;s what the film director Werner Hertzog refers to as &#8216;what starts as aesthetics ends in athletics&#8216;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Essential Lesson</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/31/the-most-important-lesson/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/31/the-most-important-lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learn your lines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trick to learning lines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing that I must impart, it is about lines. In my career to date, there is one issue that I come up against time and time again, lines. Look, you are an actor, your lines are vital to your performance. Learn them all dead cold, with no intonation and do it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret of Text Analysis</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/30/the-secret-of-text-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/30/the-secret-of-text-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Script Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[script work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[text analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Secret of Text Analysis? Regarding text analysis, there aren&#8217;t any &#8216;correct&#8217; answers, there are just answers that can acted upon and answers that can&#8217;t. The results of the text analysis should lead you the actor towards action. Anything that leads you back into inexpressive reaches of the inside of your head is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Moment of a Monologue</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/25/the-last-moment-of-a-monologue/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/25/the-last-moment-of-a-monologue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many actors kill their monologues in the last few moments. A few things can happen. Sometimes there&#8217;s a moment where it finishes and they look embarrassed with themselves, that usually kills the moment. Another thing is when they break the moment and immediately look at the panel, like a small child who has just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Craft</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/23/get-craft/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/23/get-craft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting craft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are lucky, they can just do it.  They don&#8217;t really know how they do it, if they&#8217;re asked to talk about it, they mainly speak nonsense, but they can do it and no one cares.  For the rest of us, there&#8217;s CRAFT.  The actor&#8217;s craft is highly disputed, but one things for sure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Universal Action</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/12/the-universal-action/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/07/12/the-universal-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universal action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I work with acting students at my acting studio in Glasgow, I learn a great deal from them. One of the things about being around aspirational and inspirational people is the amount of drive to succeed that they have and when they arrive in our classes and we offer them a set of tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Seconds</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/06/30/3-seconds/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/06/30/3-seconds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whats the difference between a good actor and a bad actor's performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A short one to end the month: I can tell within roughly three to five second whether someone can act. No one suddenly gets better over three acts, they just get less bad or we become desensitized to their poor form. There is something immediately available to test, even within that short space of time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out of Your Own Way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/06/26/get-out-of-your-own-way/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/06/26/get-out-of-your-own-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to get out of your own way as an actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[via negativa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I haven&#8217;t blogged for a while, life is complex, but here&#8217;s one about something that&#8217;s been on my mind. For the past few months, it seems that I&#8217;ve been saying the same thing to many of my students.  That the fundamental learning change that they need to make is not one of acquiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Characters are NOT Real People</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/06/02/characters-are-not-real-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[characters aren't human beings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[characters aren't people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[characters aren't real]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=1568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one that takes my classes will find the title a surprise to them.  Yet, there still exists a school of acting, or nine, that tries to teach the actor to invent/create a character as if they were a living person.  When their students fail to do this, they degrade them for not &#8216;committing&#8217; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deliberate Practice</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/05/13/deliberate-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/05/13/deliberate-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=1559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading about the concept of Deliberate Practice, an idea espoused by Geoff Colvin in his book Talent is Over-Rated.  It is a simple way of looking at the idea of practice, or a way of working.  There are several levels to Deliberate Practice: A Level of Effort that is directed towards a clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tongue Twister for T and TH sounds</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/30/tongue-twister-for-t-and-th-sounds/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/30/tongue-twister-for-t-and-th-sounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tongue exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tongue Twisters for Actors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You probably know by now that I love a good mouth exercise for teasing the tongue, limbering up the articulation and loosening any tension in the jaw. If you take my classes, you might recognise this, it&#8217;s not a standard tongue twister but a great mouth warm up nonetheless. I thought a thought but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics &amp; Aesthetics for Actors: Part 2 &#8211; Aesthetics</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/16/ethics-and-aesthetics-for-the-actor-part-2-aesthetics/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/16/ethics-and-aesthetics-for-the-actor-part-2-aesthetics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carrie southall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing an aesthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mamet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanislavsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strasberg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With our work ethic established, we must have our developing working practices based on aesthetic principles. I worked many times as a director with an amazing minimalist designer called Carrie Southall. We grew up 40 miles from each other and met 200 miles away at university, and although we weren&#8217;t particularly friends until the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics &amp; Aesthetics for Actors: Part 1 &#8211; Work Ethic</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/15/ethics-aesthetics-for-actors-part-1-work-ethic/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/15/ethics-aesthetics-for-actors-part-1-work-ethic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mamet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Aesthetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=1535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Success as an actor is a matter of work ethic and working aesthetics. This tricksy balancing act is what gives your average acting-shmo more than a fighting chance. Of course, there is a place for luck in this equation but without a solid, killer work ethic and a workable, practical aesthetic, you will not produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Are No Heroes</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/14/there-are-no-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/14/there-are-no-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Mel Gordon&#8217;s excellent Stanislavsky in America, a sort of mirror edition of his wonderful The Stanislavsky Technique: Russia. As a young man, I devoured the mix of history and exercises that filled this marvellous book and it took me years to stop taking it out of libraries and buy my own copy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Facts of Acting</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/06/the-facts-of-acting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the very basic things you should understand as an actor is how to read a script AS an actor. I&#8217;ve spoken often about the tools of script analysis because they are the essential way to unlock the material the actor is working on. One of the fundamental elements of a complete script analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do I Do Now? A simple acting lesson</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/04/02/what-do-i-do-now-a-simple-acting-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basics of acting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How does an actor know what to do on camera or stage? They take their answers from various places, the words of the script, stage directions, notes from the director and finally their spontaneous instincts, based in these former places. So you learned your lines and you&#8217;re setting up for your first scene, how do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acting is Ping Pong, Not Chess&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/03/15/acting-is-ping-pong-not-chess/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/03/15/acting-is-ping-pong-not-chess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting is Ping pong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the amazing Long Form Improv Masterclass that our great friend Cecile Monteyne gave last week, I&#8217;ve been reading the amazing Truth in Comedy by Del Close and Charna Halpern (and Kim &#8216;Howard&#8217; Johnson&#8217;) and I can&#8217;t believe how many times I&#8217;m simply in awe of how close the secrets of truth in comedy relate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling Talent: Part 2 with ACS Assistant Coach Ian Watt</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/02/24/tackling-talent-part-2-with-ian-watt/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2010/02/24/tackling-talent-part-2-with-ian-watt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Do you need talent?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Watt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday’s have become special days at the ACS studio. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working through a DVD of Meisner classes. It’s a real treat to watch the man himself training actors in his own techniques. At 8 hours it’s a bit of a marathon but it always sparks off lots of discussion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Good Resources</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2010/02/07/a-few-of-good-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey All In today&#8217;s blog, I wanted to offer you a few resources that I&#8217;ve found across the web. STINTON TALKS MAMET: The first is for people in the UK or for those who can listen to the iPlayer or catch Radio 4 somehow.  Tomorrow evening (Monday 8th February), Colin Stinton will be reading some [...]]]></description>
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