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The actors act with visible relish while the situations congeal into the obvious and predictable.
Sharing some of the soundest playwriting advice I've ever been given, I said, "Let the actors act".
While watching the actors act, she would stand in their midst and dance in a theater space reimagined as a Filipino nightclub.
Visible throughout, the actors act not only with their puppets and their voices but also with their faces and whole bodies.
Attend a performance-art piece in which the actors act like animals for 30 minutes, including crawling around naked and urinating on stage.
Attend a performance-art piece in which the actors act like idiots for 30 minutes, including flubbing simple problems and falling down on stage.
The stage perspectives shift as sensationally as the murder suspects: we watch the finale of "Robbin' Hood" from the points of view of both the audience and the actors; Act II opens from the orchestra pit, where the conductor sings a song; and one scene is played on a flybridge high above the stage.
There's nothing the writers wrote, the actors acted, or the plot revealed that furthered my life-long quandaries.
Like an old-fashioned theater, where the actors act on a stage and there are real people out in the audience?
"It's the avenue, I'm taking you to, 42nd Street!" The singers sing, the dancers dance and the actors act.
Dear writers: please stop writing explicit dialogue and let the actors act out whatever it is you want for the Doctor/Clara relationship.
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