Articles on acting, improvisational theatre, creativity and theatre pedagogy, Romania, Norway & more.
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What I Did Right as an Acting Coach on Zoom
Two years ago, I coached a former student on Zoom. Two weeks later, she was admitted to Romania’s only master’s programme in Film Acting with a score of 9.66 out of 10. This is what I did right.
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“So?” – A Short Scene for First-Year Acting Students
🇷🇴 Citește în română 🇳🇴 Les på norsk I thought I’d write a scene that might help first-year acting students understand through action that, beyond the text, the con-text matters more: that is, the situation; that is, the rules of the game we call life. Okay, now I’m talking nonsense! KISS, Bogdan!(Keep it simple, stupid!)…
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LIS Season 2 – I Open the Trailer
Bogdan Dumitrescu opens the trailer for season 2 of the NRK series LIS NRK TV – behind the wheel of a truck.
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You, the Reader – The Opening of My Doctoral Dissertation
The opening of Bogdan Dumitrescu’s doctoral dissertation: a personal reflection on creativity, acting pedagogy and the art of acting.
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Rendez-vous – a monologue for drama school auditions (What if?)
A contemporary monologue for young people preparing for drama school auditions, regardless of country or nationality. It can be performed by either a male or a female actor.
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A Little Different
🇳🇴 norsk 🇷🇴 romanian As I wrote here, for me, the breakthrough in understanding acting came through improvisational theatre. If theatre with a predetermined text is a path you walk facing a future you already know and can see ahead of you, improvisational theatre is a journey you make backwards: you move backwards towards an…
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The Tears of Future Humans
An excerpt from the conclusion of my 2018 doctoral dissertation — about theatre, technology, and the things that may never change in human beings.
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Henrik Ibsen: Lesser-Known Facts
Henrik Ibsen was an apprentice pharmacist, became a father at eighteen, never entered university and spent years as a writer in debt. He left Norway with a travel grant, lived abroad for 27 years and later had his portrait used in commercial advertising.
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A Preamble to Fjord
A personal reflection on childhood under Ceaușescu, parenting and violence against children, written as a preamble to the film Fjord.