Essays On the Modern World of Acting Training

Essays On the Modern World of Acting Training



On Free Speech, Social Justice & Identity
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended, it is your problem, and frankly, lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in [...]

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Regarding Online Training
― By Allen Barton Zoom acting classes. Meh. Pardon me if I go throw up now in a nearby bathroom. Sorry, we’re not going to do it. Ever. Period. If there is to come another moment when live acting classes were banned, without hope of getting back into the theatre, we’ll fold up shop and [...]

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On BHP Social Media
― By Allen Barton Where’s all the BHP Social Media? Sigh. I’ll be honest with you: I’d love to delete every last bit of wherever we exist on social media. We have an Instagram that we barely use. We have a Facebook page — whatever. I deleted the Twitter account. I suppose we have some [...]

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In Defense of
― By Allen Barton (Ruminations from early 2021…) As we enter 2021, the social media age has entered a hostile, odious and destructive adolescence. A spasm of vitriolic hatred has overcome online discourse. Where there used to be spirited (if yes, sometimes tedious) debate about all issues artistic, social and political, there is now endless [...]

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On Cancellation & Mandated Enlightenment
So… That person who has been determined to be irredeemable, and you’d like us to announce our public repudiation of them? We’re not gonna do that. That organization, which did that thing that everyone is up in arms about, and now the mob is demanding that it be boycotted? We’re not gonna do that, either. The [...]

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