Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.theater Subject: Building a character Message-ID: <233@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 14:38:34 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.233 Posted: Fri Nov 30 14:38:34 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:22:24 EST Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 22 *** YOUR MESSAGE *** This is aimed at all of you actors out there. I'm about to return to the stage for the first time since high school, and I'm understandably nervous. Being onstage is somewhat different from being in the booth where you can correct most mistakes quietly. What I'd like to find are your little tricks and suggestions for building a character and making that character come alive onstage. What goes through your mind as you're working during rehearsals? How do you blend this with what the director tells you? Do you depend on the director to define your character, or do you decide the character's personality and then try to mesh that with the director's opinion? How do you get yourself psyched to go onstage for each performance and how do you keep each performance fresh? Thanks in advance. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later..." "Everything that was different was a different thing..."