28 May 2010 - Phuket, ThailandThis morning I was video-skyping with a friend from the theater group (I’m an amateur actress in Phuket community theater these days). My friend is a talented director/writer/ actress and has offered to direct our next production. We were talking about [bxA] the craft of acting (which I know nothing about) and inhibitions that compromise performance (which I know everything about). She explained that many people create shells to conceal their personalities but we just need to chip away a piece of that shell.
I flashed on an animated film of a knife cutting into the head of a gigantic person-shaped wedding cake, carving out an eyeball in a neat rectangular piece of cake, sliding it onto a pie server where it is then delivered to a table at a wedding reception. Thai folk music played in my head.
Huh?
It took a while for me to place it.
May 2010 - Phuket, Thailand. Park Rawai Shopping Center on Chaofa West Rd.
Suddenly all my thoughts fell away and nothing mattered but the music video playing on the television across the room. I was transfixed. My senses were awakened and suddenly I could feel all the little cultural nuances about Thailand that I never seem to notice, but will likely discover once I’m gone. And when I am no longer in Thailand, watching this video will take me right back to this point in time, everything happening in my life right here, right now:
(or link to Youtube here)
Don’t ask me why.
2 comments:
Hey!
I read somewhere that ironically, actors are very sincere, because the secret of a good performance is when an actor does not really "act", but searches inside himself for a similar experience and re-lives that experience, with all the emotions it entails. This might be exhausting!
Apparently, acting, like yoga, is about being present.
Nad
Bahahaha & Wahahaha - they look quite fantastic and I can just picture the pair of them decorating the wall of my kapok tree !
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