The Pleasure to Pretend

Prof: "When you do these exercises, you are looking for your own special sense of play. How is my play with this element? With this material? If my play is good, if I love to play in this way, maybe I can use it to build a character. If my play is blahblahblah, then maybe no one will like to see me on the stage playing this way.

This is how an actor builds a character. They bring things to the character that are fun for them to play. That is where the actor starts. We do not care about the ideas of the play, the horrible analysis of my balls. No, the actor creates the character out of their pleasure to pretend. And so we have this workshop to find different ways that you have the pleasure to pretend.

Of course, the impulse is always first. The impulse guides the movement. And then on top of the movement comes the text. In this way, we do not have blah blah blah theater. We have the theater of impulse. The theater of game. The game, the impulse, it starts and we do not know where it is going. It will be a surprise.

I do not care if you are funny. Only that you are surprising. This way, you follow your impulses, wherever they lead you, And you cannot know where you are going.

We come to the theater to see you play. We don't care about your pain, about your suffering. This is the secret of your life. It is not for us. Your play is for us. You have the pleasure to play a character who suffers. But if you come out to the stage to suffer with your private pain, you break everyone's balls. "