Contemporary Australian Plays in Focus with Glenda Linscott - ACTOR PARTICIPANTS

Details

  • 15 April 2025
    12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Online
Applications Open 24 March 2025 10:00 am
Applications Close 7 April 2025 12:00 pm
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Synopsis

In this livestream Glenda will explore two scenes from two recent Australian plays (My Brilliant Career and Love Me Tender), unpacking how the playwright uses various narrative forms, literary styles, rhythm, poetry, language and physicality to ignite their stories and create passionate, alive, heart-thumping theatre. Glenda will offer tools to discover these elements, and begin the process of opening up the text, connecting with the playwright’s intentions and inspiring the actor’s imagination. This will help actors devise a range of choices to offer a director and ensemble to test on the floor in rehearsal. Glenda will work with six actors, 3 per scene.  Places by ballot. It is expected that the six successful actors will leave enough time to read the whole play(s). Please note:  observers (auditors) will be present during this livestream. Play 1: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin, adapted by Kendall Feaver, first performed by Belvoir Street Theatre, 5 December 2020 – 31 January 2021. Play 2: Love Me Tender by Tom Holloway, first performed Belvoir Street Theatre, 18 March -11 April 2010.  

Host(s)

  • Glenda Linscott

    Glenda is an Australian actress and from 2015 – 2022 was Head of Acting at WAAPA. Apart from her impressive acting career, she has also been a highly sought-after actor trainer. Over the years has worked with most of the major conservatoire training institutions in this country including NIDA, The Actor’s Centre, VCA, Swinburne University, Sydney University Conservatorium, Melbourne University, Flinders University Drama Centre, and the Adelaide College of the Arts. While Glenda has had a highly successful television career, her first love is the theatre. She believes that theatre is the home and soul-space for actors. It is where we hone our craft, define and refine who we are as artists, figure out what we want to say, connect to and contribute to community. Glenda has had a lifelong passion for new Australian writing, especially for text based/ideas based/language-based theatre. Glenda has been a proud member of Actor’s Equity since 1978.

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