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	<title>Welcome to the Acting Blog</title>
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	<description>with Acting Coach Mark Westbrook</description>
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		<title>How to Rehearse Ichi-Go Ichi-E &#8211; PART 2</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/17/how-to-rehearse-ichi-go-ichi-e-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/17/how-to-rehearse-ichi-go-ichi-e-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative ways of rehearsing a play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[As If and As-Iffing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bringing a script to life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glasgow acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I avoid my lines getting monotonous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ichi-go ichi-e]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PREP EXERCISE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rehearsal techniques for actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rehearsal techniques for directors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been explaining the way that we rehearse, and today we&#8217;re onto As-Iffing, a technique strongly rooted in Stanislavski and taught to me at the Atlantic Theater Company&#8217;s Acting School in New York City. We&#8217;ve bastardised our technique since then&#8230; Acting AS-IF After we&#8217;ve done our table work and worked on making sure the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Rehearse Ichi-Go Ichi-E &#8211; PART 1</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/16/how-to-rehearse-ichi-go-ichi-e-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/16/how-to-rehearse-ichi-go-ichi-e-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rehearsal Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[does rehearsal kill liveness?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to rehearse a play?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to rehearse and keep the spontaneity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to rehearse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s blog, I suggested something heretical.  That the individual lines of the script are not important to the actor.  They are important in communicating the story of the play, film or show to the audience, but for the actor to truthfully embody them, they need to be left alone for as long as possible.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lines Come Last</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/15/the-lines-come-last/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/15/the-lines-come-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I say this line?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[line readings and acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[struggling with a difficult line acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[when should I learn my lines?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About six months ago, I discovered something.  I must have known it all the time, but I finally started to see the real truth in it.  The truth is that the individual lines of text in a script are important to two people, the writer and their audience. But to the actor, to focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stages of Rehearsal &#8211; Tuckman Style</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/07/the-stages-of-rehearsal-tuckman-style/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/05/07/the-stages-of-rehearsal-tuckman-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 01:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Tuckman famously laid out the stages of group or team development in 1985 as Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing.  I&#8217;ve always thought these labels were particularly apt for creative endeavours too, particularly the stages of rehearsal. The first stage is FORMING.  Those early days when tentatively everyone is getting to know each other.  Bonds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do the Best Do?</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/29/what-do-the-best-do/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/29/what-do-the-best-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What do the best students do? Copying the best. NLP for actors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking recently about those habits and practises, attitudes and behaviours that my best students have exhibited over the years. Arrogance Yes, believe it or not, my best students have a little arrogance. Not aggressive, nor does it present itself negatively towards others. They simply have the arrogance of self belief that they work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shakespeare Challenge</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/23/the-shakespeare-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/23/the-shakespeare-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shakespeare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading Shakespeare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear All Today is the anniversary of William Shakespeare&#8217;s Birth and Death. Today, I will tell you a few things fascinating facts about the swan of Avon and leave you with a challenge. 1 ) At many times, Shakespeare has been spelt Shakespere and even Shagspeare. Last month, the British retailer Top Shop was roundly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acknowledge</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/18/acknowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/18/acknowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips on Acting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s blog is related to the blog about Presence and has come out of our class work at the studio. The first step of Repetition, the first part of an ADRA moment, the first part of As-Iffing, the Gibberish moment. It is the first part of every moment of action, of acting, it is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circles of Presence</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/12/circles-of-presence/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/12/circles-of-presence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circles of presence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presence of the actor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The voice coach Patsy Rodenburg talks eloquently in her TED talk about why she does theatre.  It&#8217;s quite a moving story she tells at the end, and she says many things that reinforce the way that we work at ACS Studio.  Truth. Presence.  Being in the Moment. She also explains her theories on circles of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales from the Trenches Part 4</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/05/tales-from-the-trenches-part-4/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/05/tales-from-the-trenches-part-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a supporting actor's blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acting and life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Birchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the life of a professional actor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the final part of our series of guest blogs by actor/director Paul Birchard Okay &#8211; I&#8217;ve got the callback. I&#8217;ve got the new script. But the characters and plot are now so poorly constructed, the dialogue so thin and overblown, the whole thing has become very tough to breathe any life into whatsoever. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales from the Trenches Part 3</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/04/3113/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/04/3113/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glasgow diamonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Birchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the reality of life as an actor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Part 3 of our series of blogs by actor/director Paul Birchard&#8230; I&#8217;ve got the callback &#8211; I&#8217;ve got the new script &#8211; and it&#8217;s&#8230;It&#8217;s&#8230; Not good. There is no longer any conflict between Good and Evil. Everyone is evil, more or less. The good wife sorely tested (who could handle a rifle all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales from the Trenches Part 2</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/03/tales-from-the-trenches-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/03/tales-from-the-trenches-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul bic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Birchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality of life as an actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[we are the diamonds we come from glasgow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Part 2 of Actor/Director Paul Birchard&#8217;s Guest Blogs&#8230; So &#8211; I recently went up for this western to be shot out in Romania. I had the full script, and I really liked it, as scripts go. In spite of the story being cliche?d, the dialogue was well written and therefore easy to memorize. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales from the Trenches Part 1</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/02/tales-from-the-trenches-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/02/tales-from-the-trenches-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[an actor's life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Birchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the reality of acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the reality of being an actor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL ACTING WITH GUEST BLOG POST BY ACTOR/DIRECTOR PAUL BIRCHARD &#8220;Love the Art in yourself &#8211; not yourself in the Art.&#8221; &#8211; Constantin Stanislavski &#8220;Art &#8211; and God &#8211; is in the details.&#8221; &#8211; George Spelvin Mark Westbrook&#8217;s recent post &#8220;By Any Means Necessary?&#8221; highlighted the fact that how an actor or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is That The Best You Can Do?</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/01/is-that-the-best-you-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/04/01/is-that-the-best-you-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice for becoming an actor.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best advice for actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[is that the best you can do? advice for actors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like a rude question. But the question in today&#8217;s blog post title is very important. It might seem a demeaning question, but actually, it&#8217;s a power test in itself. I used to have a different job. I produced a course document. I took it to my boss at the time and asked him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beige Middle</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/31/the-beige-middle/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/31/the-beige-middle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting beyond your comfort zone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Middle. In the Beige. The Vanilla. Your comfort zone. Actors like it there. It doesn&#8217;t test them, it doesn&#8217;t stretch them and they can feel at ease. When I use a basic directing tool like size and speed combinations, I may ask the actor to be big and fast in this part of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving Your Goals &#8211; A Little More Help</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/30/a-little-help-from-your-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/30/a-little-help-from-your-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achieving your dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[becoming a professional working actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[help achieving my goals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been reading the blog since last Sunday, you may can continue, but if you haven&#8217;t, I advise you to click here and go and read from the beginning of these latest few blogs. Over the last few days I&#8217;ve asked you to do a few things.  A few of you will have done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pareto or Bust</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/29/pareto-or-bust/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/29/pareto-or-bust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[becoming a successful actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I become an actor?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making it as an actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success as an actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talent]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past four days, I&#8217;ve challenged you to take part in some activities that will get your path to success firmly ON TRACK. But there are many of you that read the blogs, and didn&#8217;t do anything. There are many that read them, got quite inspired and didn&#8217;t do anything. There are many that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destroying Obstacles</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/28/destroying-obstacles/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/28/destroying-obstacles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[becoming a successful working actor in the UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being a working actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I become an actor in england?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I become an actor in New York?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say failing to plan is planning to fail. I&#8217;ve always liked that.  Cos I&#8217;m terrible at planning.  Until I realised how much future pain it could prevent.  Then I got really into it, and now.. well, I&#8217;m okay with it.  If you&#8217;ve been reading the last few blogs, then go ahead and read on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paid in Sweat</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/27/paid-in-sweat/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/27/paid-in-sweat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achieving your goal of being a professional actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how can I be successful?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I become an actor?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[is luck important for actors?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading this blog and you haven&#8217;t read the last two, can I suggest that you click back here. and start at the beginning with this. Success as an actor, a writer, a director, a business person, a roofer, a visual artist, a manager, a singer-songwriter, a physician, a scientist or fitness coach is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is NOT a Rehearsal</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/26/life-is-not-a-rehearsal/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/26/life-is-not-a-rehearsal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achieving my dream of becoming an actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achieving your dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becoming an Actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I become a successful working actor?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to I achieve my goal of becoming a professional actor?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re here because you read yesterday&#8217;s blog, that&#8217;s great, please read on, if not, please go back and read yesterday&#8217;s blog and then come back to this one via the link at the bottom of the previous blog. We start out with such good intentions. We know what we want, but we never quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Only One to Blame&#8230; Is You.</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/25/the-only-one-to-blame-is-you/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/25/the-only-one-to-blame-is-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achieving your dream of becoming an actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becoming an Actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I achieve my dream of becoming a professional actor?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do I become a successful working actor?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most people that want to be actors, or want to be more successful actors, will never actually achieve their goal. They will blame the industry, the directors who will only work with the same people, the lack of opportunities for ;, they will blame the lack of opportunities in ;, they will blame the lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Any Means Necessary?</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/14/by-any-means-necessary/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/14/by-any-means-necessary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which acting technique works best]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one really cares how you get the results and in film and television particularly, you won&#8217;t be congratulated for doing it. Your method, technique, way, system or approach isn&#8217;t the concern of the director, but delivering the results is yours. It doesn&#8217;t matter how you get there, you have to be able to deliver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can I Help?</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/13/how-can-i-help/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/13/how-can-i-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Tips for Actors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acting-blog.com/?p=3014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I set this blog up around 3.5 years ago, because I wanted to help. I recognised that I might have some resources, some knowledge and experience I could bring to bear or apply to help the community of actors out there on the internet. I might not always have the answer but I would like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From War to Peace</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/09/from-war-to-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/09/from-war-to-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No point in being King Shit of Turd Island Newell Harry That&#8217;s what the Harry artwork says on the wall of Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett&#8217;s office at Sydney Theatre Company. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot. I have been writing this blog for almost three and a half years and I was thinking a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehearsal is the Death of Live Performance</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/04/rehearsal-is-the-death-of-live-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/03/04/rehearsal-is-the-death-of-live-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rehearsal Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After virtual retirement from theatre directing while building the studio for almost 4 years, I am currently working on a number of projects with my most advanced students. Collectively we are called the Spartan Ensemble and while our main focus is telling a good story (through existing plays or new writing), it is our working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many of These Plays Have You Read?</title>
		<link>http://acting-blog.com/2012/02/29/how-many-of-these-plays-have-you-read/</link>
		<comments>http://acting-blog.com/2012/02/29/how-many-of-these-plays-have-you-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Acting, Theatre and Creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all need to read more. Most auditionees at drama school have barely scratched the surface of dramatic literature when they apply. Many actors have not gained a strong appreciation of dramatic literature either. If you&#8217;re an actor, you&#8217;ve got to fall in love with plays and scripts. I&#8217;ve included some great plays for you [...]]]></description>
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