All about Me!

My Training

  • 2 years, at Stratford Shakespeake School for Old English
  • 4 years at Mrs Worthington School for Daughters Acting School
  • 2 Terms at Rose Lee School for Strippers
  • Intern for the Noises Off Group for one year

All about me!

This evening I intended to go to bed early because I was afraid to work on my role. But my eye fell on a cake of chocolate. I melted it with some butter and obtained a brown mess. It was easy to smear it onto my face, and make myself into a Moor. As I sat in front of my mirror I admired at length the flash of my teeth. I learned how to show them off and how to turn my eyes until the white showed. In order to make the most of my make-up I had to put on my costume, and once I was dressed I wanted to act; but I didn’t invent anything new; I merely repeated what I had done yesterday, and now it seems to have lost its point. However, I did think I had gained some- thing in my idea of how Othello ought to look.

This exerpt is from An Actor Prepares - a book that is inflicted on any student that wants to get into the theatre