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For weeks, a young acting student has been struggling unsuccessfully with a monologue from Schiller’s The Maid of Orleans. Everyone is wondering whether to end rehearsals. It seems only a question of time. But then, unexpectedly, a change occurs. She finally begins to play the role well. It is a pleasure to watch. And then, just as things are looking good, there is a second shift. The student breaks into tears and no longer wants to act. What has happened?
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (London: Penguin Books, 1990), 78. Unless noted otherwise, this is the translation of Twilight of the Idols cited.
Friedrich Schiller, Maid of Orleans, trans. Charles E. Passage (New York: Frederick Unger Publishing, 1967), Act IV, Scene I, 87.
T.S. Eliot, “East Coker” in Collected Poems 1909–1962 (London: Faber, 1963), 196–204.
Hans-Thies Lehmann, Postdramatic Theatre, trans. Karen Jurs-Mumby (New York: Routledge, 2006), 119.
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Valerie, S. (2016). Auditorium X. In: Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137596345_2
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