Theater in the Internet Age: Local, Theoretical, Autobiographical
Friday, April 17, 2009
Acting That Shares, Cont'd
This will be the last video for a while, I promise, but I made Miranda watch this like fifteen times in a row the other day and I'm still excited about it. And so on the subject of acting that shares, as in that scene from The Apartment or Lance Bakerin Mauritius, I have to offer this great example from the BBCs I, Claudius with the amazing Derek Jacobi. Start at about 1:52 and watch the panning shot of the actors listening to Agrippina's story. Jacobi's Claudius is the first in line.
Is it Naturalism? By no means. But it is, I would argue, natural; and, more to the point, it is communicative, expressive, motivated, honest, and compelling.
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