The Now!
Embrace, invest, live in and commit to the phrase that you’re saying, NOW! Fulfill the present moment. The past is over, the future will arrive – awareness of either will undermine your commitment to the present. Don’t worry about the next line, the next action, the next transition, but fully inhabit the immediacy and importance of THIS moment.
Act on impulse in the now. Be compelled to respond from pure awareness, from intense looking and listening. Act from necessity in the moment. Allow behavior that happens, not behavior that is planned - alive, dynamic, electric performance.
Yes, risk forgetting the next line – it’s the only way to breathless, moment-to-moment work. Only what is true in the moment has importance.
Each rehearsal, each performance becomes a true experiment, an improv with text. Intense looking and listening is also the secret to great acting for the camera.
As the great American actress, Geraldine Page, once said: “Actors must be like creatures of the forest, whose very lives depend upon looking and listening.”
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"An exceptional man of the theatre. The range of his work is enviable and those with whom he has worked and his achievements speak for themselves. He has demonstrated the highest qualities of direction and producing . He has won the respect of my students for whom the collaboration he led was an unmitigated triumph. He shows the key quality of a modern teacher and artist: the capacity to understand the needs of others, motivate and inspire them and bring a team, working in harmony and to the highest standards, to fruitful and acclaimed success."Ian Brown, Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Queen Margaret University, Scotland