Mis-education
Missing from this photo – a distinctive crouched posture. There’s a fascinating disconnect between theatre programs around the country and the acting business they’re supposedly training you for. Nearly all programs emphasize the transformative power necessary in an actor: as a petite lithe female, I should nevertheless be able to play a seventy-five year-old man with ease if I’m a real actor, or so the attitude goes. So we learn Stanislavsky’s methods for psychologically c