This week I have portrayed a sex-starved parade of men, a historic civil rights campaigner and an authoritarian father figure from a bygone era. But enough of my personal life… (N.B. these were all assessments!) It’s official – I have finished all my classes and am slap-bang in the middle of my first year performance, and [...]

Fear not, I haven’t turned into an anti-social pyromaniac or been indoctrinated into a career in international espionage… rather, I have been exploring the forces of nature and simultaneously ticking several boxes on the ‘actor cliches’ list. I’m being facetious – secretly, there’s a part of me that has always yearned to move about the room embodying [...]

Nobody said it was easy… No, fair reader, I haven’t accepted a position as lead singer of a Coldplay tribute act (Tepidpause? Chillmute?), I’m merely summing up semester two at the Drama School of Dreams. I’m going to go for the positive – it’s been a term of discoveries and decisions (to use dramaschoolspeak). I’m [...]

Drip. Drip. Squelch. Nope, not the soundtrack to the latest celebrity sex tape – my weekend, dear readers. I sit here watching syrup drip from a jar, observing its movements. Lest you think me unnaturally preoccupied with sticky substances, I hasten to add that this is part of my training. Because one of the characters [...]