A Hamlet New Year
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.”— Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 “Give every man thine ear but few thy voice, and even fewer thy heart—unless they are in S.A.M.”— Me, Act 1, Scene 1, New Year Another year has passed, my Sam-sonian family. I don’t have resolutions this year; instead, I want to […]
Book suggestion
This summer, I delved into Ernest Becker’s profound work, The Denial of Death. For anyone passionate about the arts, especially theatre, this book offers deep insights into human existence and the often-ignored subject of mortality. “Mankind’s common instinct for reality… has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.”—William James At the heart […]
THINGS I ABSORBED, THOUGHT ABOUT, LEARNED, READ OR HEARD THIS SUMMER.
To tell YOUR truth sincerely is the pitiful pretension of what we call theatre. To lie with ABSOLUTE sincerity is the euphoria of the ART of the theatre. – Let us stop confusing our truth with art’s truth. If simple theatre reproduces life, then the art of theatre inherently must invent real life, this invention is a direct criticism of the poverty of existence most […]
THE FOUR VIRTUES: VIRTUE NUMBER TWO
By Cameron Thor and Kimon Fioretos Completeness of Action Completeness of Action invites the actor to become thorough, thoughtful, and resolved in their body and their body’s relationship to its surroundings. To master both the root and boundary of movement. In the character’s physical life, the actor will apply “complete” both as an adjective: “having no […]
3 TEXTS I USED TO READ IN THE FIRST YEAR ACTING CLASS, FIRST DAY (NOT ANYMORE)
To Train or Not to Train (Excerpt from a 1978 text written by an actor) Many people believe that training in a drama school is a waste of time.Acting, they claim, is something you either have or you don’t. How can you teach someone to do something that is either in their nature or not? […]
Stoics on the Rescue: a simple Life in Art
Life in the arts, Ah yes…a fantastic journey filled with great moments and a life of self-exploration! But also Self-doubt and a Life filled with financial insecurity. Nowadays the brave young people that take this adventurous journey have new and even more treacherous paths to overcome. Routes that might mislead them into focusing on the […]
