Blog: An actor writes – the actor is a one-man band
In my last blog post, I addressed my latest acting-related identity crisis and inexpertly thrashed it out a bit. But then I forgot to stop thinking and I re...
Briony Rawle
An actor writes: Female actors – actors or actresses?
I’m having an identity crisis. People keep asking me what I am – and it’s not just because they’ve caught me at 7am before I’ve had a chance to organise my face...
Blog: An actor writes – My dirty secret
Psst. You. Yeah, you. With the face. C’mere. I need to tell you a secret. Now, you can’t tell anyone this, it would ruin me. No-one would ever take me serio...
An actor writes: If an actress performs in a play, and no industry professionals are around to see it, does she make a sound?
I’ve come to the end of our run, looked around, and realised that of the roughly eleventy-billion industry professionals I invited to see me in Macbeth, precise...
Blog: An actor writes – Earning a crust
I recently met a guy who asked me, “Do you want to hear about the worst job I’ve ever had?” He’d once had a summer job in a tin can factory. As the tin cans...
Blog: An actor writes – It is the cry of women: all-female(ish) Shakespeare
Shaking up the genders has always been trendy in Shakespeare. Far cleverer and better-informed people than me have written fat books about it, and that’s be...
Briony Rawle
Briony studied English Literature at Warwick University and then an MA in Acting at Drama Centre London. She is an actor, writer and reviewer living in London.