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Ep #12: Dakin Matthews (Shakespeare scholar/actor/teacher, Broadway plays/musicals) on Acting the Classics and Your Artistic Family

Published March 13, 2018 | Last Updated January 6, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

Dakin Matthews - True Grit

Actors are challenged to bring their instrument to the highest level of availability—their voice, their movement, their psyche, their understanding, their emotional life—so that if they are doing a great play that deals with great issues and great emotions, they can fill that greatness with their instrument. — Dakin Matthews   I’m thrilled to welcome Dakin […]

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