How to be a gentleman
Yesterday I finally caught up with Rebecca Northan’s Blind Date. First created in 2007, the show has toured extensively in Canada, the US and the UK. The premise of the […]
Tag Archives: non-actor
The Postdramatic Value of Amateur Aesthetics
In my last post, I responded to a paper by Matt Jones that was presented at the recent CATR/SQET conference in Ottawa. Continuing that trend, here are some thoughts/questions inspired […]
Acting and Non-Acting part 2
Continuing to think about Michael Kirby’s model describing a spectrum of acting through not-acting. At the non-acting end, (as discussed in my previous post) Kirby suggests that performers who appear […]
The Evanescent Presence of the Non-Actor
(Spoiler Alert — If you have not seen the play, and do not want to know anything about it, you should stop reading now.) Last week in the Drama department, […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 