Thursday, 24 March 2011

Tim Crouch's visit - further reflections

'There is an an actor's illness that actors have - a kind of passivity they just want to do acting'
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  1. Jon Gavaghan31 March 2011 at 01:31

    Hi Nick, interesting quote, was that from you? or Tim? I don't really agree with it to be honest, I wouldn't say its a passivity, its more active than that, the majority of actors I meet do other things as well as acting. But because its such a hard way to make a living you have to be focused and a lot of the time you have to lie and say that you just want to do acting because its the only way you can get people to pay any attention. If you start mentioning all the other creative things you do people get funny about it, so I think for the majority of actors its a case of pretending they 'just' want to be actors, so that they can get the gig and get paid.

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  2. Nick Wood31 March 2011 at 15:02

    It was Tim Crouch's comment

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  3. Nick Wood31 March 2011 at 15:25

    Hi Jon, Good to hear from you. It was Tim Crouch's comment. He gave a brilliant talk by the way - a kind of two hour performance - but as part of this performance perhaps he did spell out in somewhat black-and-white terms a moment in his life, as he described it, when he moved from being an unhappy actor to writing his first play.
    It was his story - his point of view - his sense of reacting to the past, as he sees it now.
    I also discovered he was a student on the very first version of the Advanced Theatre Practice - (the year before I joined).

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