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No, you're not making it up: how to find your inner activist

I don’t know about you, but the industry can often make me feel like I need to adopt an “everybody for themselves” mentality. Stick up for yourself. Justify yourself. Fight for yourself. Yesterday, I was lucky enough join a group of exceptional individuals in a session exploring how we can be stronger together in challenging power strategies, led by the brilliant Tom Ross-Williams and Jess Bastick-Vines, who works with Equity. Our discussion was inspired by personal stories t

EXPLORING FEMALE WRITERS: THE MONO BOX PLAY READING GROUP

Since graduating from Drama School I’d been searching for a play reading group in London... but surprisingly couldn’t find one aimed specifically at professional actors. For me sight reading’s such a vital skill. As someone who was diagnosed with dyslexia at school, cold reading terrified me and really affected my confidence when it came to approaching a script. After a lot of practise, however, it’s become one of the skills I feel most comfortable with. I now find performing

RHYTHM IS A WRITER

There was a sketch on Shakespeare Live! – the program broadcast by the BBC commemorating the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – where stupidly famous actors argue where the emphasis should be in that stupidly famous line: "to be or not to be, that is the question." Should it be "to be OR not to be, that is the question," or "to be or NOT to be, that is the question," or perhaps "to be or not to be, that is THE question?” In fact, of course, Shakespeare has already