If we consider the range of human emotions expressible in a human life. Who expresses themselves the most comprehensively and feels the very most? Surely by now we can collectively agree that women feel more and are more sensitive? Science tells us that their olfactory receptors are more active so they certainly taste and smell more. If you talk to the women in your life, you'll immediately recognise the fact that women feel a great deal more than it even seems we as men have the capacity to. This is how I feel and why I always and forever will seek the valuable counsel of women when faced with life's challenges. And with my own emotional oversights and biases. My emotions simply aren't as refined as my female friends and that's OK. It's good for a leader to know, acknowledge, and learn and earn based on the knowledge of. To put it crudely in this Linkedin sphere. And yet. Of all women, who expresses themselves and the human soul more eloquently than a woman on the stage of a theatre? This is the question. Female playwrights, actors, dancers, bards and singers, songwriters, poets, orators, and all manner of performance artists... They simply have no competition. Not that art is a competition. No teamwork ever is. What I do mean to say is this. If men can confidently say they'd rather learn from whoever was best at something? I'd be learning a lot of my emotional regulation and self-expression from women. And if you want to understand where the English language came from? And what it's worth that British actors have the very most exquisite theatrical traditions? Through all time and evidenced in the legacy of Shakespeare? A society doesn't simply produce a Shakespeare. It takes a village to raise a so and so. But it takes..... many thousands of years to raise and train, and nurture, and educate, and facilitate, and collaborate with, and allow - a single Shakespeare. How he didn't burn down Europe or get shot? I'll never know. But we can learn from it all. And we must. Elocution, articulation, poise, enunciation. How to intone and command your meaning. HOW TO USE YOUR DIAPHRAGM! How and why you should raise your voice only when you mean to and never ever ever when you don't. Or do you pick up your office phone and scream into it before dialing numbers? Confidence is the ultimate goal. Confidence expressing ourselves in all settings. Interviews, phone calls, meetings. But, this will help you at home too. With your spouse, your buddies, your gal pals, your guy friends. It will socialise you better than you ever have been. There is no coincidence that The Charisma Myth was written by a woman. And yet if you want to learn it for real? Hire as many lovely ladies from the theatre as you can. Sit down with them all and help them help you. Work on training programs together. Collaborate on curriculums. Simplify the terms of what you do. So they can simplify their terms. And you can collaborate and succeed together. To be endlessly brilliant.
Reader in Theatre & Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (PGdip, MRes, PhD, PFHEA)
Excellent to see The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama scrapping audition fees & removing a barrier to who might apply… “We must push back against a creeping narrative that says the arts are elitist, that they are only for a select few. It has never been more important to stand together, united, and say that everyone is welcome in our sector and in our institutions – that the arts are vital and that they are for all of us.” - Josette Bushell-Mingo (Principal, CSSD) https://lnkd.in/ebkGxjXW
