Acting

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Acting requires a wide range of skill, from the ability to control your voice to adopting physical attributes. A stage actor will often be required to research a period of history or particular topic to bring a character to life. This collection aims to give an insight into what it is like to be an actor at the National Theatre. Featuring Simon Russell Beale, Zoë Wanamaker, Lesley Manville, Rory Kinnear, Fiona Shaw, Ben Whishaw and Roger Allam.

16/08/2012 · VIDEO

Rehearsal overview

Watch a video diary from One Man, Two Guvnors to see improvisation within the rehearsal room.

3 min
15/08/2012 · VIDEO

Devising a multimedia production

Director Katie Mitchell and her company of actors and multimedia experts seeks to create a dynamic and multi-faceted performance. Using the text of a novel, they build a visual narrative paragraph by paragraph which is created live on stage every night.

4 min
01/02/2012 · VIDEO

Acting In The Cherry Orchard

Director Howard Davies and actors Charity Wakefield, Mark Bonnar and Zoe Wanamaker talk about method and processes of acting for Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

5 min
31/01/2012 · VIDEO

Improvising during rehearsals

Improvisation is a useful tool in the rehearsal room. Daniel Rigby takes us into the rehearsal room for One Man Two Gunvors.

3 min
31/01/2012 · VIDEO

An actor’s role in a multimedia production

In one of Katie Mitchell's multimedia productions, one actor may find itself representing the voice of one character, the head of a second and the arm of a third. Meanwhile, a fourth actor might be manipulating lights and a video camera to relay the image to projection screens.

4 min
31/01/2012 · VIDEO

The reinvention of the script

Highly individual 'script' books were created by each actor to enable them to follow their own path through the complex maze of the multimedia production.

3 min
31/01/2012 · VIDEO

Voice work on ‘O what a noble mind…’

Head of Voice at the National Theatre, Jeannette Nelson works on Ophelia's speech ‘O, what a noble mind...' with actor Ellie Turner. The look at vowel sound in the speech as the conduit of emotion.

6 min
31/01/2012 · VIDEO

Text work on blank verse from Much Ado About Nothing

Chris Saul works with Jeannette Nelson, the National Theatre's Head of Voice, on a speech in Much ADo About Nothing. Chris did not know the speech and had to discover the meaning of the text. By reading through the verse and doing an exercise Chris is able to convey this meaning to the audience.

8 min

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Acting requires a wide range of skill, from the ability to control your voice to adopting physical attributes. A stage actor will often be required to research a period of history or particular topic to bring a character to life. This collection aims to give an insight into what it is like to be an actor at the National Theatre. Featuring Simon Russell Beale, Zoë Wanamaker, Lesley Manville, Rory Kinnear, Fiona Shaw, Ben Whishaw and Roger Allam.