Starting off with a new acting coach can leave you feeling like a rank beginner again! I've been studying British acting training with Ruth Kulerman for a month now and it's hard at the moment because it's so different from most of the Method and Meisner-based training I've had. Forget connecting to emotions. Connect to the text, the sounds of the words. To pitch and rhythm. And what do you know? The emotions are there. Fascinating, Captain! I do love working one-on-one. In an hour, I can get more accomplished than in a month of classes.
I also started private singing lessons with Adam Roebuck - I have my second lesson tomorrow. I'm actually enjoying it. Me, Ms. Anti-Musical. Both the acting and singing coaching are supporting each other in developing my voice and power through my voice. It's not about volume. Sure, I can be loud and project like a charm. That's not necessarily the most powerful choice.
Speaking of powerful choices, I saw John Gabriel Borkman with Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw and Lindsay Duncan at BAM. Power is when Alan Rickman, who maintained an amazing contained stillness suddenly bursts out with "I LOVED POWER" and the whole theatre was so dead silent you could hear the person next to you breathing. A riveting performance. Not Ibsen's best play, but certainly relevant, given the Bernie Madoff/Wall Street scumbags of our day and age. And beautifully staged. I love live theatre. Love it.
My business plan is set, my goals are on the move and I have several casting director seminars coming up later this month, along with a large mailing going out and continuing to work on the staged reading/development of the new play 5 Days Into Madness.
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