Today in class, we watched a video of the great ADS talking about her method of acting, or as she calls it, imitating. Here are my (extremely rough) notes on the video.
- "Everything we have to say is couched in metaphors"
- "Identity - untouchable"
- Haven't translated theatre into something that can constantly be replicated info something we can depend on
- "The actor's gift is the imagination"
- "The ability to believe that you are someone else"
- Individuality as it is captured physically, making sounds
- Unquenchable: listen to people, listen to stories
- Goal: to tell a story that has multiple points of view
- indicate that the old idea of the single author is FLAWED
- It takes many people to tell the story of a community
- How does the other person think?
- Bridging that gap through acting (?)
- You don't lose anything - you gain
- Something appealing about details - maybe there's a wider variety of human beings than we've thought about
-Keerthi
