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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #30213
Short
Acting 3
Transcript:
Uta Hagen, who was a very well-known teacher of acting made her views about live performance very clear. If she could see visually what was going on in the actor's mind, he's thinking about how to play the part, then the acting was bad, she felt. But when she as an audience member could believe that the actor was actually a real person, the person he was playing, then she enjoyed the performance immensely. She did though acknowledge that achieving this ideal is one of the most difficult things to do. She felt that it was much harder than playing even the most difficult musical instruments and in fact was the toughest performance art of all. Watching actors with the ability to obtain a perfect understanding of another human, albeit usually a fictitious one and to apply that in a way that appears effortless to a performance on stage was what Hagen called her ultimate experience.
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