We were using the slips the other day for a longform. My instruction was “Be like you are in real life.”
This is an interesting instruction because it forces you to use what is actually in you that you don’t normally use. Normally we try to hide behind a mask. But when we do that we are limiting what of ourselves appears on the stage.
Think for a minute about what being like yourself would mean.
You can be a character, you can deliberately be yourself. Both are alternatives to falling in to being yourself. Which is the weakest of the three alternatives? Just falling in to being yourself.
The point is that there is so much untapped possibility just in being yourself.
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