Explore This Month's E-Resources - School of Drama: November 2024

In this chapter, Ken lays out the key qualities of charisma and teaches you the techniques that will help you convey it in both your acting and offstage situations, such as meetings and auditions, to make a positive, memorable impression.

The videos in this chapter are: Ease, Focus and Confidence, Charisma and Positivity, Positivity in Mind and Body, Use Mantras in an Improvised Dialogue, Apply Mantras to a Text, Practise Your Rapport with the Audience, Play with the Rhythm of Attack and Yield, Play Attack and Yield with Text, Keeping Your Performance Fresh, Use Mantras, Change Your Objective, Try the Least Obvious Choice, Alter Status, The Next Level, Working Within the Director's Vision.

Interview with Jane McDermott & Jenny Kemp about the making of The Black Sequin Dress. A rare insight in the creative process of directing, this is a 9 minute documentary filmed during the rehearsal of The Black Sequin Dress. It includes rehearsal and production footage and an interview with actor Margaret Mills as well as the director/writer Jenny Kemp.

Filmed for NT Collection in March 2023 and available with English and Welsh subtitles. Following their critically acclaimed productions Iphigenia in Splott and Killology, director Rachel O’Riordan reunites with Gary Owen to deliver his new play.

Romeo is a single dad hanging on tight. Julie is fighting to follow her dream of studying at Cambridge. Two Welsh teens raised a few streets apart – but from entirely different worlds – crash into first love and are knocked off their feet. But at the crossroads to the rest of their lives, Julie’s family fears the worst in a world of unequal opportunity.

This recording was filmed in 2023.

Shut Up, I’m Dreaming leans into the hopes and feelings we hold, and those we are forced to squash. Full of laughter, joy, grief and silliness, this is The PappyShow‘s love letter to a new generation.

Throughout 2022, artists from The PappyShow spent time with 100 students across 3 schools in Sunderland, Wakefield and Walsall to have conversations about dreams and ambition in an uncertain world. The tour was directed by Kane Husbands and was based on the views, ideas and experiences of teenagers across England.

Filmed through National Theatre Live on 12th October 2022.

A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words hold a terrible power. As a climate of fear spreads through the community, private vendettas fuel public accusations and soon the truth itself is on trial.

Olivier Award-winner Lyndsey Turner directs this electrifying new production with designs by Es Devlin in a restaging of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece – a gripping parable of power and its abuse.