Norfolk Actor and Playwright
Norfolk actor and playwright Marie Cooper blogs about acting in theatre, film, television, murder mystery, cabaret and roleplay
Well, it’s been almost seventeen weeks since the two-week quarantine began. Still no help at all forthcoming from the UK government for all those excluded from any help for lost self-employed earnings. The same government that proclaimed that we were “all in this together” and “no one will be left behind”.
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I find film far more challenging than theatre and today was particularly difficult as we were filming a funeral scene for the short film Duelo. I was playing Clemence, the mother to Stephen and Tristan. To authentically feel genuine loss of a person close to Clemence character, I felt that I needed to draw on a particular memory.
Continue reading “Acting using Affective Memory”
Okay, the whole of Australia is on fire, the UK has been dropped into Brexshit creek without a paddle, a boat, or a rubber ring, and everyone is saying we are on the verge of world war three. So, I suppose, in the scheme of things, me precariously wobbling onto another stepping stone in my acting career isn’t big news this week.
Continue reading “First IMDB credit”
Actors often work as roleplayers in academic, medical and corporate organisations to help faciliate the learning of good communication skills. Organisations need people who can improvise, react authentically to the situation, use verbal and non-verbal cues, and feedback constructively on how the situation felt to them as their ‘character’
Continue reading “Working Actor: Roleplaying as a Simulated Patient”
I had to be up at 5.30 in the morning to get up, get my face on, endeavor to look vaguely human, whilst not feeling at my best (I am not a morning person) and get to the film studio on time. It turned out to be one of those days on which everything just seemed to go right.
Continue reading “Working Actor: Working as a Supporting Artist with NBA”