Practical Stage Directing for Amateurs; a Handbook for Amateur Managers And Actors
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Let the man- ager insist on proper pauses, and he will be bombarded with entreaties and threats from those members of his cast who are sure they appear perfectly silly. But he must stand his ground; he can meet all the worry of his actors by training them how best they can demean themselves in the in- tervals he has demanded of them. The point of allowing these good, marked in- tervals of silence is obvious enough. It is then that the actor has an opportunity to show by his play what is going o...n in the mind of the character he is representing; he can do more in the way of genuine and convincing impersonation when he is say- Rehearsing — Pauses 89 ing nothing than by the longest set of speeches. The play of feeling shows when the actor is silent — ^in his face, in his slightest gesture and movement ; it is in the silences that you feel the attention of the audience riveted to the stage and what is going on there. The actor with ample resources of tech- nique wlU long for a pause; the amateur will dread it.
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