| OBJECTION 6 = 'I can't get to see stage performances' |
| This is a self-imposed confidence trick. If you want to be a dentist, you need to look into people's mouths. If you want to be a street-cleaner, you borrow a brush. |
| You have to get to as many theatres as possible, and one of the essential ways of being an apprentice actor is this: Sit in the front row in studio (fringe) theatres, and LOOK AND LEARN. |
| If you like that particular display of techniques, go to the same theatre on a following night, and learn how performances vary night after night. And how good actors make it fresh every night. |
| This objection is a cul-de-sac. What might it say about you? That you have almost nothing to say—only the power to say it repeatedly. You want the thrill of being regarded as a wannabe actor without the trouble of doing anything about it. |
| As an acting teacher, theatre-going is at the centre of everything. But many acting students ignore theatre (and crucially studio theatre, where acting can be observed in close-up). That is a bitter pill to swallow. But the teacher has to conceal that personal stress. Those students are missing the practice of professional acting. |
| The acting course lays out techniques with the hope that those theatre-avoiding students will come to realise what they are missing at some time in the future. |
| The acting classroom is agreed to be a space in which students are free to express themselves. So that the 'elephant in the room' (avoiding theatre-going) can only occasionally surface. The problem remains that such students only refer acting techniques to TV & film, and to non-professional productions. |
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