In Acting for Non-Actors, we're doing the Scottish play. That is, the Shakespeare play whose name it is bad luck to say aloud in a theatre, which starts with an "M" and rhymes with "Lacbeth."
We're not doing a performance this quarter. Just working on the scenes. Without the pressure of performance, we can actually work more -- go deeper, explore more elastically.
The actors got their scenes last week. Tonight, we dive in. I've only spent time in this play once before. My experience is, it's got a strong undertow. The momentum of the plot carries its own inexorable urgency. It was the first time I had experienced, in showing scenework, that hungry silence in an audience. I couldn't figure out what they were so keyed into.
Finally I realized -- they're not seeing scenes. They're watching a play. They're waiting for What Happens Next.
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