When I was a wee lad — perhaps 8 or 9-years-old — I acted in a lot of community theatre plays and musicals.
Acting was an opportunity to escape an ordinary life for one of imagination and history and it was a tasting of a freedom that has sustained me ever since.
Theatre made me an escapee from the mandatory expectations of a pedestrian community where staying and longing were demanded over exploration and fulfillment.
The actor plays a unique role in society by bringing light and meaning to the relationship between the human and the ethereal.
The actor’s role is not to define life, but to interpret it through the blood and muscle of their bodies.
The actor is the heart of us, the beating of us, the rhythm of life within us all.
Without the actor in society, we crumble into our selfish selves and whine away the opportunities for insight into what made us thrive in the past while decaying in the now.
I was sorry to learn from Rosie O’Donnell’s blog that Broadway actor/singer/dancer and all-around-great-guy Jason Opsahl is dead. She misses him and so do I. Jason died of a brain tumor called “anaplastic astrocytoma” on Oct. 25, 2002. He was 39.
by Steve Gaines
the fourth wall has been shattered
blown away!
stage and house is all one…
no longer a clear line of departure between us and them
the actors… the audience
Continue reading → The Fourth Wall… Up In Smoke (An Actor's Experience in a Very Small Black Box)
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