This weekend, I am acting in a stage adaptation of a Twilight Zone episode from 1961 entitled "Steel". Check out The Darkroom Theatre for more info & tickets. "Steel" originally starred Lee Marvin as a washed-up boxer, now manager of a washed-up robot boxer, sometime in the future. Next week are two different episodes, and I play Rod Serling.
What I love most about acting is the rehearsal – the explorations with other actors, finding how we’re related, what we care about. Its always surprising. This is how the real world works — we figure out things together, are dependent on each other much more than we acknowledge. On stage, being right isn’t enough. As improv-guru Keith Johnstone advises: How do you know the work is good? Other people want to play with you.
When the play is over, I usually get depressed, am tired, and so I crash – physically and emotionally. We call it Post Dramatic Stress Disorder…