Lewis began by softening his students into a new play, telling them all about the human significance of the work, its writer, and the trials they experienced while writing the play; how, in performing it, they became a part of its legacy; it was an honor, he said, to take lines, the playwright’s distilled vulnerability, and make them one’s own. He would say acting is paying homage to the visionaries who had the courage to go for it; acting is freeing the parts of oneself living secretly, ashamedly, in memory and regret; acting is living at the height of one’s emotional possibilities; acting is
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