Sunday, April 27, 2008

ON CONTACT BETWEEN ACTORS: DON'T TAKE THE OTHER PERSON FOR GRANTED

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
-- click on image to enlarge --

Frances McDormand and Morgan Freeman as a suffering couple in the revival of "The Country Girl" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.
". . . It’s a law of theatrical physics that electricity is generated onstage only when a connection is made: between actors and audience, yes, but first of all among the actors themselves. And for whatever reason, everyone in “The Country Girl” seems to be operating on his or her own isolating frequency."(To read more.)

-- click on image to enlarge --

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words." -- Sanford Meisner