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Introduction
Mark Seton currently works at the Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney. Mark does research in Higher Education and Performing Arts. His ongoing focus of research and training is in actor wellbeing.
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How actors are adequately prepared for their lifetime of work can be a vexed issue. However what is emerging in the field is data that suggests more can be done to prepare those entering the acting profession and to support actors throughout their career development. This article argues that teaching staff, support staff and industry partners might...
Students of acting and their teachers profoundly form each other and are formed by each other, through their embodied interactions, within the institutional processes of actor training. Yet this embodied formation requires appropriate and sustainable ethical training practices.
Such practices are lacking as evidenced by both the potential for and a...
Violation and injury (both physical and psychological) are aspects of life and therefore figure significantly; not only in much dramatic storytelling, but also in the life circumstances that doctors, nurses, emergency professionals and even the military encounter. However, in theatrical, cinematic or simulated performance of violence, little attent...
Background:
Anecdotal evidence and media reports suggest that actors and other performing artists experience high levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. However, no empirical study has examined the psychological well-being of this professional group.
Objective:
The Australian Actors' Wellbeing Study (AWS) was conducted to examine the general...
Background:
Anecdotal and media reports suggest that actors and performing artists are vulnerable to high levels of alcohol use. However, little empirical research is available to document the extent and correlates of alcohol use amongst these artists, particularly in an Australian context.
Objective:
This study investigated alcohol use in a sam...
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that actors and other performing artists are under great pressure to conform to idealized appearances and body types. The pursuit of such appearances may trigger eating disorder symptoms, such as unhealthy attitudes towards body weight and shape. Thus far, there has been no dedicated empirical study of the prevale...
How do we make sense of, or respond appropriately, when play and creativity take us down unhelpful paths? William Golding's novel of child's play gone awry concludes with young Ralph's realisation of the dark side of play and creativity as '[he] wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wi...
In Paul Ashwin’s (2009) critique of much research into teaching-learning processes in higher education, he notes the shortcomings of approaches to research that tend to focus exclusively on either the lecturer-practitioner’s or student’s perspective rather than analysing the ongoing dynamic interplay between lecturer-practitioners and students (200...
The digitization of video documentation and other production documentation (photographic images, scripts, programmes, reviews, stage designs and audio recordings) of live performances can be accessed across the world through the Internet. At the same time, protocols requisite for the effective flow of data constrain how digitized artefacts of an in...
Given the high degree of inherent interconnection between individuals in terms of place, available resources, and a multiplicity of social memberships, each group seeks to determine its boundaries of identity through difference. A collectivity becomes one way to define group identity in terms of relationships and practices that are collectively con...
