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ACTING
I am fortunate to be an actor and to have the opportunity to explore the variety
of human experience - it has always been a fascinating study for me. As Sydney Pollack eloquently states:
"We all live rather prescribed and narrow lives. I'm just this one white guy,
60-something years old. I'll not be anything except older. I've got one set of
kids. I've got one wife. That's it for me. But then there's this great, great
library of experiences that's housed in the liberal arts. Fictional...eyes I can
borrow through which I can see the world. I can be a black housewife. I can be
a king. I can be a 19 century fur trader. I can be a CIA spy. I can be a warrior.
I can learn what it feels like to be tried and convicted, to confess, to win the
beautiful girl, lose the beautiful girl. It's a way of understanding the world
that functions beyond intellect and it teaches through feeling and experience
even when the experience is purely that of the imagination. Compassion finally
is the great gift of literature...I mean the aesthetic creation of all artificial
worlds, must persuade you to interpret the world through compassion."
-- Sydney Pollack
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Present Laughter
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Directed by Peter Amster
Christopher DuVal as Roland Maule
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