Thank you Millard. What I do is look past the words they're
using and imagine myself siting in their place, trying to
understand their perspective and I start predicting their next
moves and countering them ahead of time when I can.
But I do it like a dance. They want a dramatic play? I know the
script and can play my role. But I break character frequently
until they can see the stage they're standing on, and I'm
standing on... and see the cardboard props and the guy sitting
there with the laugh track button and the 'aww" button, in the
mostly empty auditorium.
My hope is I'll hear, "Wanna beer?" when it's all done or
something, although I prefer coffee.
To do a variation on the Shakespeare, we're all but method
actors who lost themselves in their parts.
