actors. I don’t have the experience as a teacher I would need to be able to analyze
the work I’m doing deeply. It’s still experimental and I feel like it could go further. It
would be like writing your memoirs at age 30: it would be over in three chapters. Also,
my writing is mostly fiction (because I find the truth is more evident in fiction than in
nonfiction). But, anyway, in the future, who knows...
Does the fact that that way you could reach a lot of artists/actors appeal to you
or do you think some things are not transferable through books?
Good question. I do think things would be lost in a book, especially with this work. I
give a lot of individual feedback to actors depending on what each actor needs. That
personal touch would be lost in a book because I would be forced to write
generalities. However, it may work as a series of case studies of actors. In that case,
the reader could make up their own mind, but then something would certainly be lost
as well. So, you see my predicament. Although I believe in transferable knowledge
and preserving ideas for generations, I also think some ideas should be reborn for
each generation and theater always changes - it must change. So, maybe it’s not
important for one technique to be remembered over another in the long-term. In fact,
part of the problem with a lot of live performance now is this too stringent approach to
techniques which no longer apply to the modern world.