Melbourne Actor's Lab

Melbourne Actor's Lab

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Ongoing acting training for emerging and professional actors with Peter Kalos in Melbourne, Australia & online.

The Actors Lab is the only Melbourne training centre dedicated to delivering the traditional art in method acting (originated by Lee Strasberg and The Actors Studio).

10/06/2026

Don't just depend on your mind - make thing more concrete but touching them , creating them , acting them out because that way it's not so easy to lose your choices .

09/06/2026
09/06/2026

Prepare your choices before you turn up to a rehearsal or a set.

08/06/2026

Creating Place sounds so basic but it's a very important skill. Don't skip it !

07/06/2026

Stop using acting as Therapy - is it therapeutic? I'm sure it can be and whilst it has been for me many times - that's not what it's about.

06/06/2026

Research EVERYTHING about your character ; their world, ethics, politics, religion, finances - everything !

05/06/2026

Using personal information is one thing - sharing personal information is another - you don't need to expose yourself on every set- don't ! Protect your personal information.

She watched them behead her husband. Then she bought three warships, painted them black, dyed the sails red, and hunted the King of France for 13 years.
Jeanne de Clisson was born in 1300 into the French nobility. Her third husband Olivier de Clisson was a powerful Breton lord who had loyally served France. In August 1343 King Philip VI had him arrested, tried for treason, and executed by beheading at Les Halles in Paris. His severed head was sent to Nantes and displayed on a pole outside the castle walls for all to see.
Jeanne took her children to see it.
Then she sold everything she owned — her lands, her jewellery, her possessions — and used the money to buy three warships. She painted them black. She dyed the sails red. She named her flagship My Revenge.
For 13 years Jeanne de Clisson sailed the English Channel hunting French ships. When she captured a vessel she slaughtered almost the entire crew. She left one or two survivors alive deliberately — so they could return to the French court and report that the Lioness of Brittany had struck again. She took particular pleasure in capturing French noblemen. She beheaded them personally with an axe and threw their bodies into the sea.
King Philip VI never caught her. He died in 1350 and she kept going. His successor John II never caught her either. She terrorised French shipping for 13 years — one year for every year of her marriage to Olivier.
In 1356 she retired. Not because anyone stopped her. Because she chose to. She married an English knight, settled in a castle on the Brittany coast, and died quietly in 1359.

#girlhistory #jeannadeclisson #lionessofbrittany #medievalhistory 04/06/2026

Someone PLEASE do her as a character choice at the LAB !
She rocks !

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZH26dauy6H/?igsh=MXVmYjl5cDZob2NnMw==

She watched them behead her husband. Then she bought three warships, painted them black, dyed the sails red, and hunted the King of France for 13 years. Jeanne de Clisson was born in 1300 into the French nobility. Her third husband Olivier de Clisson was a powerful Breton lord who had loyally served France. In August 1343 King Philip VI had him arrested, tried for treason, and executed by beheading at Les Halles in Paris. His severed head was sent to Nantes and displayed on a pole outside the castle walls for all to see. Jeanne took her children to see it. Then she sold everything she owned — her lands, her jewellery, her possessions — and used the money to buy three warships. She painted them black. She dyed the sails red. She named her flagship My Revenge. For 13 years Jeanne de Clisson sailed the English Channel hunting French ships. When she captured a vessel she slaughtered almost the entire crew. She left one or two survivors alive deliberately — so they could return to the French court and report that the Lioness of Brittany had struck again. She took particular pleasure in capturing French noblemen. She beheaded them personally with an axe and threw their bodies into the sea. King Philip VI never caught her. He died in 1350 and she kept going. His successor John II never caught her either. She terrorised French shipping for 13 years — one year for every year of her marriage to Olivier. In 1356 she retired. Not because anyone stopped her. Because she chose to. She married an English knight, settled in a castle on the Brittany coast, and died quietly in 1359. #girlhistory #jeannadeclisson #lionessofbrittany #medievalhistory

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Melbourne, VIC
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Monday 5pm - 11pm
Tuesday 9am - 11pm
Wednesday 5pm - 11pm
Thursday 5pm - 11pm
Saturday 9am - 2pm