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You're in a play on stage and you've just missed the Bus at the Bus stop on stage by one breath, and your conviction on stage with your one line is - My Mind is in acting Mode! I must act like I just missed the bus, and what do we see? Lifeless Acting that sticks out like a very sore thumb.. Ah so-so sorry, No true soul behind it, and no wonder nobody in the audience believed you, while asleep in their seats. See what happened was, the acting light turned on instead of the true you, the acting light that states: I must ACT MAD here in this scene with my one line, because "my character" just missed the bus. Would that be the same real conviction, the same truth, the same soul, if you had missed the Bus on the way to work in the morning (or whenever) trying to get to your day Job on time? In some cases, in the real, you'd probably coin a new language if you missed the Bus in the real. Why wasn't the true real soul behind the new language you coin whenever you miss the bus in the real, present on stage when you had missed the Bus at that bus stop within that play that time? Only if the Actor shown us their real true person in that situation, they would have surely awaken the sleeping, or perhaps bored-to-death patrons out of their seats to pay attention to their performance. You, as an Actor, can only ever be you truthfully, ever - There is no such thing as "My Character." The My Character bit, an actors worst enemy actually, is sold at Deli Shops, and It's a cheap deli meat on the menu. |
At any rate, Shakespeare's suggestion is still available, and what He had meant even in his own day. "To thine own Self, be true."
