What is preparation?
How do you prepare yourself before going on stage?
Where does a misunderstanding of acting preparation take place?
How to alleviate it?
This story is from “No acting, please”, written by Eric Morris and Joan Hotchkis.
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Preparation is the work you do to get to the point where you can do your work. There are numerous kinds: lifelong preparations for your own growth as a professional; instrumental preparation; daily practice; preparations for a relationship with your partner in a play; preparations to change your ego-state; and many other kinds.
The “Cannon story“ illustrates how an actor often deludes himself into believing that the work he’s doing is helping him, when actually that work is only adding to his burden and preventing him from seeing the simplest truths and responding to what he sees and hears. Had the actor simply listened, he would have heard the cannon and responded honestly to that. Instead, he had a predetermined concept of the character as being much more complicated than was written, and his preparation, rather than leading him to a state of BEING, only fortified his cerebral complexity, taking him farther and farther away from his real obligations.
The nature of your preparation will always be determined by what you need at that moment. If you don’t regularly practice getting to the reality of what is going on in you, then when you start to work, you are not functioning from your true origin. The daily practice of your “being“ state is your instrumental preparation.
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