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"Positive action means that the actor/character focuses on the success of the enterprise rather than allowing the fear of failure to enter the mind or consciousness – every character plays to win at every moment....

The inclination of creativity – both on stage and in life – is to celebrate and to praise life and existence.....

With positive action, the characters hang on not only to the hope but also to the belief that they will get what they want. When they fail to achieve their goals, the effect will be psychologically and emotionally devastating; when they achieve their goals, the effect will be miraculous, exhilarating, and transporting."

- Louis Scheeder, Neo-Classical Training, Training of the American Actor.

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—- ——- is annoyed by actors whose characters cry, yet they don’t brush their own tears away. Human beings don’t like to be seen to have tears running down their faces, especially in the presence of the people that are making them cry. You know who doesn’t immediately wipe away those tears? It’s a short list: actors who are trying to win awards, and…yeah, that’s about it.

— from a friend’s status on Facebook. Thought it made a decent point about real doing vs. showing. I was re-reading The Actor and The Target when I was having difficulty with a section of La Boheme (Spoken), which I recently did at The Flea in TriBeCa. Declan Donnellan makes a simple point that the many of the emotions we feel as people are very often emotions we do not want to be feeling at that moment. Whereas emotion IS what most actors want because it SHOWS they are acting. As always acting vs. doing. Really doing. Striving to get, and then dealing with the success or failure of that endeavor.

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