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Then the question is how to have it both ways, and mbf has an answer, which is to enjoy a serious deadpan performance in an absurd context that makes it funny. If we can operate on both levels simultaneously, we are totally into our dramatic experience, while also laughing at the comedy of it. No, we can't laugh during the performance. Do we switch back and forth? Here's a bit more of the story. Then a review, wasn't that funny? An audience helps. Create a con job and entertainment based on the mission, exaggerating all these elevated emotions. Hey, we've got to act them out with passion to recruit the rubes. Yet we're also getting the goods and we know it. As performance we only do it
for an audience, and the rest of the time we're back to normal.
Except when we're rehearsing, trying new stuff. Maybe we stay
in role so we're always improvising new stuff. |
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