Wednesday, 17 July 2013

The Method Actors

When we're up there, if you want to meet your lover, over in Gravenhurst, then go, I won't stop you

When we're up there, if you want to meet your lover, over in Gravenhurst, then go, I won't stop you. I know I'm not enough for you; I can't even put a sentence together. That I can type means nothing. Go to him, go. I'll stoically wither and die. I've made you too sad; I can't help it. You should have something happy. I can't make you happy. Whoever you lover is, he must be someone good. Easily better than me. But that's no challenge, innit? Happy times I wish on you. Let me die; two years and six months.

 

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Who is Killing the Great Method Actors of Ljubljana?

 

"Yes, you! You thought we'd never catch on to your repertoire and its tragic characters! Mary Stuart, King Lear, Oedipus, Willy Loman, Phèdre, all you could think of, adaptions of Karenina, Appointment in Samarra, Death in Venice! The actors could only method act, never having been properly educated in the gestural languages of the English and French, and they all killed themselves during their productions! How diabolical! You, Mr. Director, are going to jail for a very long time. And I'll see to it the court restricts you forever to ... comedy!"

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