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we’re so wrapped up in our own story that we don’t see how we’re supporting characters in someone else’s.
Nathan Hill • The Nix: A novel
a thesis around plays + theatre in a digital world
plays are one of the last forms of media that resist digitization -- not by accident, but by design. a play doesn’t scale. it doesn’t go viral (well, not the real thing. the idea of a play can spread. its songs, its brand, its aesthetics. but the core experience - the presence, the silence, the un... See more
Ideally, in every scene each character brings out qualities that mark the dimensions of the others, all held in constellation by the weight of the protagonist at the center.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation."
-Bette Davis
-Bette Davis
A good actor, like a good empath, has to understand the stories the character is telling himself.