Today’s workshop helped me immensely. It made me realize at the moment my acting is forced and hasn't reached its potential. I feel that this is a step in a better direction, but it’s as if you ran 2 miles before taking this step off the track. Now your body has to adjust to sitting. It’s going to be very hard to break the old habits of not forcing my body to do not normal things. I hope I will improve over time and be better, like when we did the walking exercise, which was relatively easy compared to the hat exercise. I think that like a few others & I were over analyzing the situation and in my mind I saw something completely different then when I made a fool of myself by putting the hat on, or not using the scared shitless feeling when Megan threw her shoe at me. Hey, well at least it was a learning experience.
Ps. Abundance is not (ABB-U-DANCE)
You, like all the others, got dumped into the pool today. But you know, you are the type of kid that just gets up and jumps in again, so you will be fine in class, and will get so much out of it. You're already figuring things out - like using the scared feeling.
ReplyDeleteWhat you, and some others, are doing, is assuming the audience needs to be told everything. But think back to how much fun it was to watch Andrew walk across the room, and think all the things you thought about him, and how you guessed about what he was feeling. Wasn't that a great fun experience? Why would anyone deny the audience that? Truly, that is what they come to the theatre for - the MYSTERY of it all!
The walking thing is just as easy/hard as the hat exercise.
Feel what you feel, do what you have to do. That is all there is to it.
You are brave - we saw that in class and in the call backs. BRave is very very good.
Warm regards,
Luke