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Re: Fours and acting.
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Posted by Konrad on October 22, 1999 at 17:39:48:
In Reply to: Fours and acting. posted by Tiggy. on October 22, 1999 at 13:48:11:
: Isn't it amazing how many Fours are into acting. Loads of people on here are either interested in pursueing acting as a career, or do it as a fairly serious hobby and means of self-exploration. I'm just starting to get into it, having always felt attracted to it. Can anyone tell me the ways in which it has helped you. Tigs, What does Tigs, Tiggy stand for? But to respond,
It was at an early age, like 8, that I was inspired to try acting.
The first impulse came out of how the teacher would cast us in
school plays. Your typical teacher will cast the extraverted,
showy kids in the big roles and the quiet types like many Fours
in the small parts. I'd see the outgoing kids go all quiet onstage
or just generally be bland and untruthful and I'd think, if someone
just gave me the chance, I know I'd be so much more interesting, so
much more real, onstage. So I started doing children's theatre,
and from then on I was basically hooked. There's so many different joys, so much spiritual and artistic growth,
in acting, particularly theatre. There's the awesome feeling of being
in tune with the audience, of having them experience what you're
experiencing. There's the shamanistic sense of joining with the other
actors, like when you warm up together before a performance (which
unfortunately almost never happens in professional shows, at least
here in the States). There's the weight of moments happening onstage,
and often that self-transcendence when something powerful comes through
you, and you're not trying to act, you're just experiencing the truth
of that moment of the play. How does it help me? I don't have an easy answer, it's just what I do.
I used to have this dichotomy of Myself the Actor and Myself the Person,
it was a kind of self-dramatization: oh, my true self is on the stage,
or in this film; feeling my regular self was curtailed and like a cocoon
for the Artist. It was a kind of self-indulgence of this artist cliche,
which I pretty much grew out of a few years ago. I had the idea that
the best way for me to meet girls was to have them see my work. I guess
a lot of growth came through demystifying my Actor-self and focusing on
my regular life. There is a real eternal spiritual channel for the shaman, which is worth
experiencing. Performing for a group of people you don't know will get
you to the core of that experience. The cast, director and even crew
becomes this family that is very real, but disperses. I was an only
child growing up, but I know what it's like to have a real brother and
sister through the theatre, all the closeness and something verging on
hatred you feel for a sibling at times. Anyway, I can't recommend it enough. Good luck; let us know what your
experiences are as they happen. Konrad
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