SATURDAY ♦ NOVEMBER 21 ♦ 8 PM
Acting, Life, & the Opposites
Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“Acting shows you don’t have to be fettered to yourself. You can be other people. There is no limit to how much you can be other people!” —Eli Siegel
There Was the Stage, 18th Century, Poetry
Carol McCluer, actor & singer, reports on a class in which Eli Siegel discussed Hamlet’s speech to the players and Charles Churchill‘s satirical poem on actors, The Rosciad.
“This class was education about something explained for the first time by Aesthetic Realism: that the art of acting is an expression of the deepest desire in every person—to like the world.”
Classic Mistakes in Acting—& in Marriage
By Anne Fielding, award-winning actor, with dramatic examples of acting technique in scenes from Sheridan’s School for Scandal, & Wilde’s An Ideal Husband
People Were So in 1908; or, Eugene Walters’ The Easiest Way
Discussing this drama about an actress & the fight between art & comfort, Eli Siegel said:
“There is not a person who hasn’t felt he was a mean varmint and at the same time taken advantage of….This play was looked on as one of the big things in realism in America.”
—with scenes from the play
Contri. $10
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