Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harmonica, violin, all of which he learned to play as a child in Bulgaria. Son of a farm hand, he was raised in Velingrad, a mineral-bath resort high in the Rhodope Mountains. As a teenager, Ghiaurov had no interest in singing, gained fame in local circles as an actor and star athlete with the town soccer and volleyball teams. Drafted into the army for two years, he wangled a job as conductor of a 120-member chorus and orchestra, first discovered his vocal gifts while trying to teach others to sing. He won a state scholarship to the Moscow...
...director, Adrian Hall, is forceful; and has a new approach to acting. More and more actors are getting tired of the dominant modes on Broadway: Lee Strasberg's regurgitation of Stanislavski's Kazan's "emotional method acting," and the rest. At Trinity, the actor has nothing imposed upon him. "When you come on stage, you bring something with you," Hall says...
...that "something" must come from the actor. Here, the craft of acting is explained to its creative depths, and each actor is an individual artist, within the bounds of ensemble acting--that is, without upstaging anyone else. The simple precept of acting--"If you can believe yourself, then I'll believe you"--rules at Trinity Square...
...course, it's not so simple, as any young actor knows. Try becoming John Hale in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Physical behavior is difficult enough; but the real problem is internalization. How does a minister in 1960 feel when he finds his faith to be false? How does an actor in 1965 believe in this own interpretation of such a character...
Hall's method is to draw out as many interpretations from the actor as possible. By eliminating those which are not convincing and keeping the few that work, he can eventually construct a successful character...