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Qualities and privileges of the stage actor

As our business in Quebec brings us to devote himself almost exclusively to the scene, my reflections on theater practice have necessarily been refined over the years. Questions continue to abound, but answers are needed sometimes to themselves. So I asked myself there is little about the qualities which must show an actor to persevere and here, briefly, what I figured.

The main qualities of an actor de théâtre doivent être, selon moi, l’abnégation et le courage. Abnégation, car il doit être en mesure d’oublier ce qu’il est - ou ce qu’il croît être – pour personnifier quelqu’un d’autre, soir après soir. Cet exercice de transsubstantiation - se vider de soi pour laisser place au personnage - ne peut se faire sans une bonne dose d’humilité quelque soient les qualités du personnage. Le personnage que devra endosser l’acteur sera parfois désagréable, son âme sera salie, ses propos seront noirs. L’acteur devra néanmoins lui faire une place en son propre corps. Le corps de l’acteur devient alors un réceptacle de l’âme of the character - without him - would not exist. The soul of the character has weight than when she will nest within the actor. And this must be done with the consent, the abandonment of the latter. Sometimes the character is too large, the envelope too narrow. Sometimes the reverse happens: the actor's body or what he believes to be his body is too large to contain the soul of the character. Causes a distortion: the actor too full of itself will not make the fair word of his character and one who underestimates will not have enough space to offer it. There is a fair environment to find.

As for the courage he needed when the player feels like going on stage as you go up to the front, when the actor is preparing to fight a battle he knows he can win. In this era where every effort is commendable that which is to give body and soul to a cause that is not properly his is, in my opinion, sublime. The stage actor, for his sacrifice, can lead a constant battle libération.Sans attempt to change the world, the stage actor is dependent on a vision of a free humanity, the bearer, most time, the torch of a strong word and a privilege it must honor all its qualities.