Role Preparation

I have keys that make role preparation personal and unique to each artist. The body must be prepared to reveal the character. There must be a living link between the character and yourself. There are questions that make the character’s personality assert itself. There are acting techniques that are specific and pointed – they make the performer’s job easier.

There is a story about one of the English greats who dryly asked a verismo actor who was covered with very real filth because he was playing a homeless man, “But my dear boy, have you never heard of acting?”

Adria Firestone is a complete artist, the mistress of a special charisma, and possesses a sensitive intuition, that permits her to acutely observe human behaviour.
El Pais