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Hurting Stage

when actors hurt Nov 22, 2021

There is a time for all of us actors, when we have to go on stage, hurting.

Someone is sick.  You are sick.

Someone is betrayed.  Someone is angry. You are.

Someone is accused.  Someone is canceled. You may be.

Someone is empty inside.  Someone is avoiding you. 

You break stage, you enter, breathe, project, move, cope.

You perform.

The emotions roiling inside, examined or not, will thrust into the show. We are human, and our bodies don't know the difference between a scene and life.  The third rail of acting is almost always running hot, to protect us.

That book just fell... should I pick it up?

That line was dropped...do I need to alter anything?

The pace is slow...let me press into the cues.

An audience member is coughing...let me repeat that.

My heart is sore...I am crying hard in a scene usually played dry.

The beauty and the agony of theatre is thus. We show up as humans, with all the day has brought us.  All the thoughts, the critiques, the...

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