Curtain CallCombining selling and acting techniques will leave your customers cheering for more.
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Until recently, I didn't fully appreciate the connectionbetween selling and acting. Then this past summer I played the roleof Dorothea in Lee Blessing's play "Eleemosynary" atthe Liberty Theatre in Hailey, Idaho.
The director believed in "living," as opposed to"acting," in front of an audience. He instructed us tofind the truth in the dialogue, the task or the interactionrequired. Once we found that private truth and communicated it toeach other, we didn't have to worry about impressing or playingto an audience. They would see truth in our presence, and thatwould lure them into our world. He showed us that good actingisn't acting at all but rather living in front of the publicwith no self-consciousness.
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