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Larry Moss
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January 4 - May 30, 2019
Pinter’s bitter, vicious, and sad commentary on a certain terrible relationship in upper-class British society,
There are plays and films like Betrayal where the dialogue is so riveting that too much movement damages the material,
Splendor in the Grass,
Laurence Olivier, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca,
Janet McTeer’s white-hot performance in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
Cherry Jones in The Heiress,
When you see a performance that rivets you, it is because you believe
that what you are watching is actually happening in front of you. When the character enters, you have a sense that they are
coming from a life that has been lived fully prior to this moment. They were born, grew up ...
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adolescence, became an adult, and somewhere along the way an event or a series of even...
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the specific situation in which you meet them, with a specific go...
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Miller’s The Days of Wine and Roses.
If you’re playing Joe, you’ve got to have an image of walking into the apartment and finding her having sex with another
guy, drunk out of her mind, and you either leaving silently in grief and shame so they won’t see you or dragging
the other guy out of the bed and throwing him out the door, with his clothes after him. If yo...
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story in your imagination connected to this—as you would in life—an event that was almost ...
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can’t play this scene with Kirsten with the emot...
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht.
With food coloring,
his tongue had been made an incredible blood red,
The Animal
Exercise
The Robber Bridegroom, a Broadway musical based
on a novella by Eudora Welty.
I’ve observed in life that many people that I would consider ignorant can be unbelievably judgmental and self-righteous.
James Foley’s After Dark My Sweet.
Night of the Hunter
PLACE: THE RICHNESS OF WHERE YOU ARE
Stella Adler used to say, “Where you are is who you are.”
Whether we are normally conscious of it or not, we are always
affected by where we are.
The Hours.
Carson McCuller’s play The Member of the Wedding
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Pinter’s Betrayal,
why did the writer place me here and what is my job in living
in this place? What behavior can I find that grows out of my relationship with the place?
Frank Perry’s film The Swimmer,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Barefoot in the Park,
The Green Mile
What behaviors can I create in response to that place that make the story
emotional and alive for the audience?
nobody in the audience praises or blames the director for your
performance;
On the Waterfront,
Kazan’s film Splendor in the Grass,
Rebel Without a Cause, and one in Giant.
Let’s say you’re going to play a character and you want to give them the same kind of drunken
looseness that Loden used in Splendor in the Grass.
