Episode 20: Interview with David van Belle About The Invisible Project

October 7th, 2009 by Elaine Elrod | Posted in director interviews, Show Notes | No Comments »

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Episode 20 contains an in-depth interview with director and facilitator David van Belle about The Invisible Project, a play about homelessness. The interview was recorded last January after the performance of the play at the Drop-In Centre shelter in Calgary. The Invisible Project was also performed at City Hall as part of Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo.

In this interview, David van Belle

• Discusses how The Invisible Project relates to other theatre projects in his career.
• Tells us about the background of the project and the research that was done on site by his company at the Drop-In Centre and Mustard Seed shelters.
• Tells us the story of the unusual auditions he held for the actors on the project.
• Talks about the response to the play from members of the homeless community, who were part of the audiences for the performances.

Check out Episode 16 for more information and to see a slide show of photos from the play taken by mask maker Douglas R. Witt.

Episode 19: Interview With Drop-In Centre Client and Volunteer Linda Coleman

September 2nd, 2009 by Elaine Elrod | Posted in audience interviews, Show Notes | No Comments »

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Episode 19 features an audio interview with Drop-In Centre shelter client and volunteer Linda Coleman. In this interview, Linda Coleman discusses her reaction to the The Invisible Project, a play about homelessness, and how the content of the play related to her own life experiences.

If you want more background on The Invisible Project, you can listen to Episode 16 and Episode 17.

The Drop-In Centre is a homeless shelter that can house up to 1250 men and women per night and that serves up to 3500 meals per day. The Invisible Project is an original play based on on-site research with homeless people, featuring masks created by Douglas Witt.

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Episode 19 Coming Soon!

September 2nd, 2009 by Elaine Elrod | Posted in Announcements | No Comments »

Episode 19, an audio interview with Drop-In Centre shelter client and volunteer Linda Coleman will be up later today. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please check back in a few hours.

In this interview, Linda Coleman discusses her reaction to the The Invisible Project, a play about homelessness, and how the content of the play related to her own life experiences.

If you want more background on The Invisible Project, you can listen to Episode 16 and Episode 17.

The Drop-In Centre is a homeless shelter that can house up to 1250 men and women per night and that serves up to 3500 meals per day. The Invisible Project is an original play based on on-site research with homeless people, featuring masks created by Douglas Witt.

Secrets of the Actor, Part 3!

July 17th, 2009 by Elaine Elrod | Posted in acting resources, Show Notes | No Comments »

Do you remember the “Secrets of the Actor” episodes from last summer ? An extension of those episodes is currently being featured on psychologist Douglas Eby’s The Creative Mind web site. The guest post includes an article about “Secrets of the Actor” (including links to those episodes if you never heard them) and a new short 5 minute podcast called Secrets of the Actor, Part 3.

Part 3 contains some of my own ideas about how the pursuit of acting can give us insight into our own lives and can influence our personal development. I originally recorded these ideas as part of the “Secrets of the Actor” episodes but then cut them out because I didn’t want the episodes to be too long. I hope you’ll find that my ideas echo and elaborate on some of the ideas in Parts 1 and 2 that came out during the interviews.

Technical Difficulties with the RSS Feed

If you are one of the original subscribers to the show from when it was still on the Theatre Alberta web site, you may have noticed that you didn’t get the latest video episode I posted on the site, Episode 18: Technical Theatre at Grant MacEwan College, Part 2. I finally identified the source of the problem (a server that crashed and lost a crucial setting). It should be working again now, but if you ever need to resubscribe, our feed address is

http://feeds.acting-and-theatre.com/dramaticimpact

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