64 stories by "Briony Rawle"
Many people's jobs require them to account for their time in order to get paid. They write reports, they give presentations, they, they " well I have no idea what normal people do in normal …
Trawling the casting websites for work is an actor's daily ritual. Each day, another musical will need an “Understudy/Assistant Stage Manager”, another music video will need a lu…
Nic Jackman is a recent graduate from LAMDA's three-year acting course and is in rehearsals for the Donmar Warehouse's new production of Arnold Wesker's Roots. The play is set in rural Norfo…
You'd think that with all the advice that actors are offered all the time, it'd be a pretty easy ride. Whenever I tell a non-actor that I'm an actor, they usually assume (correctly, as I'm s…
This week my happy, lefty, lazily anti-capitalist ideals took an unpleasant bashing as I realised that, particularly in the acting world, most of the time things just don't work without mone…
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 realised that I don't even really kn…
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 into something that looks lik…
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, precisely none actually came. True, t…
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 came down the conveyor belt, the …
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 because it's always really interesti…
Tonight is opening night. The red carpet has been swept and the champagne glasses polished. The press are camped outside the stage door, poised to snap the cast as we sweep out of our black …
When I tell people I'm an actor, after they've finished asking me what I've been in that they would have seen (nothing), they often then ask me how I find work. The answer, for many actors, …
This and that. Bits and bobs. Things and stuff. Here and there. Thank God that English, despite having one of the greediest vocabularies of all the languages (I mean who needs ten different …
Sorry if it's raining today guys. I think that was me. Last night was the last performance of the show I've been in for the past ten weeks, and I'm all bereft. My fellow cast members have al…
