Word: haling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown, who still rankled at his short tenure, could not resist a farewell blast: "Individual board members have forced decisions and taken unilateral action not consistent with good museum administration." Not so, replied Ed Carter, president of the board of trustees and head of California's Broadway-Hale stores. "The board's decision to request Brown's resignation was based primarily on his demonstrated inability to deal adequately with the administrative problems of a major art museum...
...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...
Take John Hale as an example. Hale's personality is probably the most difficult to capture because he changes from one to the next. During the three months covered in the play, Reverend Hale changes from an eager, confident minister into a disillusioned and broken-hearted failure, with little or no faith. "Now, you cannot change too rapidly in this scene, or I won't believe you," Hall says. And from then on, it becomes a trial and error process...
...conversational tones; we'll bring it up when you're more confident." The theme of the scene seems to be obscure, so it stops. "Now I know that Mr. Miller has not written a good, clear scene here, but it is up to us to make it clear. You (Hale) are here to interrogate Goody Proctor, and even though you only address John Proctor, I must know that you have come to interrogate...
Over and over, a few sentences are said, and Hale experiments. He addresses John Proctor and looks to Elizabeth for her reactions; but his reactions can only be as proportionately large as hers must be larger. Other tools must be found. Hale tries dividing the sentence between husband and wife. The whole ensemble must work to make Hale's purpose logical, but it comes, as much as it can, from the actors...