By Benjamin Lloyd
This can be required analyzing for somebody captivated with the theater, appearing, and the educating of it. The struggles of a tender actor, the actor/director dating, the demanding situations of educating artwork in universities, ageism, and strategies for instructing life like appearing are all communicated via a fictional sequence of letters among Andy, an anguished younger manhattan urban actor and Alice, his Quaker grade-school appearing instructor.
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Countless times in countless classes I have met that moment, and each time my heart raced a little faster. Each time the students knew (cunning creatures) that something was up. Each time Most often, we surprised each other with an authentic encounter. Once I stopped having to be so planned, and began trusting the moment more, trusting the dynamic collision more, real encounters and real learning took place in my classes. Suddenly, I was right there, with them, I knew it and they knew it. And off we went.
28: Andy to Alice Letter Feb. 7: Andy to AUce Memories of Alice teaching, getting fired, teaching from a book, Keeshan quote, Andy’s history Letter Feb. 15: Alice to Andy Family paradigm, from pain to creativity, finding help, on textbooks, questions for the acting teacher, not what you teach but who you are Letter Feb. 25: Alice to Andy The Quad described, Alice’s childhood, Edith introduced Postcard Mar. 1: Andy to Alice Postcard Mar. 10: Alice to Andy Letter Mar. 20: Andy to Alice Actors and directors, judgment, therapy, meetings, Alice’s teaching questions answered, Stanislavsky, Mamet, and Bates 38 Letter Apr.
That’s not to say that Bill’s behavior didn’t deserve a reaction of some kind. It surely did, but not yours. You behaved badly and you deserved to be fired. I hope you’ve learned your lesson. But yours was an extreme case. The Familial Paradigm’s negative effects are most often much more subtle, masked as they are beneath the already odd behaviors in play at rehearsal. Before you rip up this letter, here’s the good news: you have not lost acting, you’ve just put it down for the moment. Soon you will board the sinking ship and begin the hard work of salvage.