what comes to hand
One of the tools I’ve embraced as an Actor is the one of using what you have ‘just lying around’. If I’m working on a role and I want to get some feel for the part, usually – if not always – the information is in the script. We can then use our brains and get everything we need from the work, for the work.
Great novels are an excellent example of this. When we read Dostoyevski’s Crime And Punishment, we see everything immediately. There’s no need to torture oneself in figuring out what the character wants or why he does things. It’s all there. We don’t have to twist ourselves into knots.
I’ m going to suggest that we take everything that comes to hand and reject everything that is superfluous in our work. It’s all there for us, and there’s always stuff to complicate things – it’s just for us to sort out.
This is a simple yet empowering way to approach our work. And I think we produce leaner, cleaner and greener work.
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