From: MFaizi5009-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 01:33:36 EDT
Subject: Re: I am Guildenstern


The innocent Luke Pellen asked:
  
>  Has anyone here done much 
>  acting?
>  Any tips for remembering lines? getting into character etc.?

Hell, no.  I couldn't act my way out of a wet paper bag if my life depended 
on it.

You have to really believe in the importance of art in order to act in a 
play.  I couldn't do it.  Remember lines?  LOL.  I would be inventing my own 
lines.  I don't like scripts.

I have a nephew who is an actor and a screen writer.  If the little darling 
would ever get an email address, I would give it to you.  The boy has written 
six novels and acted in several plays and movies.  He is most adept at 
playing various sorts of societal misfits--sexual deviants and murderers.  No 
wonder.  He subscribed to the National Enquirer at the age of nine.

He is a smart boy and it is my hope that, by the time that he is forty, he 
might be willing to know something of reality.

I have no problem speaking with him bluntly and not as an aunt.  If he would 
get himself a computer with email access, I would speak with him very 
bluntly.  He is a good writer and I would advise him to write a piece of 
crappy fiction and get it published and to use the money and the time to 
write something more significant.

Since Shannon has no email and I cannot speak so bluntly to him, I will turn 
on you instead, Luke.

What is acting this part teaching you?  Do you think that you will learn 
anything of real value through acting?

I wonder what Marlon Brando has learned or Jack Nicholson.  I admire the 
skill but I question the lessons.

Faizi




  
>  "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead"
>  
>  presented by the Mt. Gambier Theatre Group
>  
>  17/18/19/20th of November.
>  
>  Expect to see you all there :-)
>  
>  Later,
>  
>  
>  Luke Pellen
>  e-mail: luke-AT-seol.net.au
>  ICQ#: 25510475