Thursday, September 25, 2008

Shurtleff Once Said...

John Michael and i were having a bit of trouble with our first scene early on so we worked it a couple days ago and found that the problem was that i wasn't paying enough attention to him. the scene couldn't build because i wasn't looking at him. i would turn away from him and ignore him at times and the night after we worked it i went back to Shurtleff's audition and read this passage. thought it was interesting.

CHOOSING TO IGNORE YOUR PARTNER IS A BAD CHOICE!
We ignore someone because we dont like what he says! that means we wish he would sau something other then what we are hearing. that means we want him to change. the active of ignoring is to want the other person in the scene to change: to stop being what he is and become what we want him to be.
find out what you want you partner to change to, and make that your choice. make it specific.

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