Tag: Circle in the Square
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Remembering a Wonderful Teacher: Jacqueline Brookes (1930-2013)
Last week, a wonderful acting teacher whom I studied with at Circle in the Square Theatre School passed away. She was 82. I only studied with her for a summer, but it was the most influential and creative summer of my entire life. Jacqueline Brookes, the woman who played Ellen Barkin’s mother in Sea of…
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Getting Animated: “The Rescuers” (1977)
Before television, there was radio; and with radio came actors who were trained within the theater and learned to use their voices to act through radio. They painted a picture of the character using the words and vocal inflections and sounds that made that person come alive to the audience. Animated films have always been…