15 TRULY TRIVIAL TIPS FOR A WANNABE THESPIAN
15 TRULY TRIVIAL TIPS FOR A WANNABE THESPIAN
1. When someone else is rehearsing, sit on the bench with sunglasses – and point an imaginary bazooka at passing actors. See if they die.
2. During a rehearsal send sms to yourself. Then reply. Repeat 200 times.
3. Every time the director asks you to do something, ask if it adheres to the Alexandria Technique.
4. Carry a dustbin to rehearsal and label it “MEMORY”.
5. Listen to Stanislavsky in Russian on your IPod; and walk non-stop through a revolving door.
6. At an audition, if you’re asked what you would do, if you were not an actor, please reply in a staccato voice: “have sex with a serial killer on a white stallion that is going to win next year’s derby”.
7. Finish all your sentences with “Viva la Muerte – Long Live Death“.
8. Read your lines – and ignore the punctuations. Take a break. And then read the punctuations.
9. Ask for a diet cutting chai whenever there is a chai break – with a solemn face.
10. In between second bell and third bell; come and tell the audience that today is not your day. Therefore your clone will masquerade – and perform an approximate version of whatever it is you perform.
11. Sing along, LOUDLY with Kishori Amonkar when she performs at Nehru Centre.
12. Call the playwright at 3 am and ask why the verse in his play don’t rhyme.
13. Five days in advance, tell your producer that you can’t do the show because you’re not in the mood because of the occurences in … Arunachal Pradesh.
14. Have your co-actors address you by your screen name, “A bad actor is never full of repentance”.
15. Forward this to other actors. Tell them it’s important.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Thespians ko “thes” pahuchna nahi chahiye..it looks like pure “PIAN”.. Perfectly Intentional, Appropriate & Needed”
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more such posts plssss…
Absolutely brilliant and soo true!
Lovely stuff…
hahaha
nice
good one….
EXCELLENT STUFF……SHEER BEAUTY
CHEERS!!!
ramu sir, will have to remember number 4 for tonight’s rehearsal. and number 16 goes something like this…
when the director asks something of you, raise one eyebrow and scratch your chin inquisitively, gaze into the director’s eyes, and ask slowly, “are you SURE about that?”
ha ha ha ha ha… sounds like a first hand expereince… wink.
Hilarious.. but most content more appropriate for “passion for theater’ site..