Norfolk Actor and Playwright
Norfolk actor and playwright Marie Cooper blogs about acting in theatre, film, television, murder mystery, cabaret and roleplay
Thankfully, after being offstage and off-camera, for anything but masked roleplay work, for the last few months, I am on the mend. It has been financially agonising to miss out on so much work from September to November.
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The orginal paper was written by Marie Cooper in 2018 as part of her Masters degree.
Continue reading “The Relationship Between Artist and Entrepreneurial Activity in my own Context as an Actor and Performer”
An exciting start to the day this morning. I was sent over a new batch of short films to judge for the Watersprite Film Festival. It’s a fantastic event to support and encourage talented student filmmakers from all around the world. The festival is run by students, for students, via both Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University. Entry into the film festival is totally free.
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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”.
Continue reading “ExcludedUK” 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.
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