2020 AUDIOBOOK DEMO TRACK: NON-FICTION | Adult Male Expert Explains
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM) North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes)Transcript
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in my workshops, we do an experiment. The classic problem of the three lawyers for this experiment. I try to select only people who have no performing experience. I'll ask people who have some performing experience to raise their hands, and then I'll pick three people who didn't raise their hands. I'll bring them to the front of the room and explain the set up to them there. Three lawyers, Junior Associates sitting in their conference room at their law firm and the most important case of their careers just started five minutes ago in a courthouse four blocks away. That's all the information they're given. How would you solve this problem? Seems obvious, right? Get up and leave since you're already late and you're only four blocks away. In fact, you should rush right over as fast as you possibly can, right? Not if you're an actor. Apparently, when I conduct this experiment in acting workshops, most actors just stand up and immediately start to act. They stand around and talk about it. Oh, when the scene starts, one or two might head for the exit after all there late, but one invariably will stick around making up dialogue talking on the phone, and when the other see that they'll come back and start to also act. Actors air wonderfully resourceful. They invent imaginary phones and faxes. They rifle through their imaginary briefcases to find the imaginary folder that would explain their tardiness. They call for imaginary cabs and right imaginary emails to imaginary bosses on imaginary iPhones. Because once you're on stage, the point is to act, isn't it? Actually, it isn't. The point is to tell the story. And if rushing off stage without saying a word will tell the story and therefore support the comedy, then that's what you have to do, as the old vaudevillians used to say, Get on, get over and get off.