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hobbinch · 1 year ago

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Just a thought about my theater education but I feel like it might have been irresponsible to have a bunch of teenagers do intense method acting drills and use our personal (sometimes traumatizing) memories to draw on for characters instead of having us imagine hypotheticals? Even if there was more than the like 3% chance someone in that class would end up as an adult with a hobby or career in acting that involves character work that deep, that was kinda fucked up actually??

#i saw someone talking about how traumatizing the methods were of the acting theorists currently considered masters #like Meisner and Stanislavsky #and had a big Oh! moment about it #like i already knew those classes made a deep impact on my psyche and dissociation but its something else #to see someone talking about how traumatizing that shit is for adults who are already pro actors!!#some of the emotional and sometimes even physical trauma theater students go through reminds me of high school football in a certain way #all this damage to train people for a lifestyle only a small percentage of them will even PURSUE as adults let alone succeed at

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