My best friend and I have been cast opposite each other in this intense two-person play and we thought working together would be amazing but now our friendship dynamic is bleeding into the characters in ways that feel both too safe and too exposing. We can't seem to find the boundary between us as friends and us as these characters who are supposed to hate each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Existing intimacy can become the enemy of theatrical truth when real relationships provide too much comfort and too much fear.
“Where Are You with Theater and dramatic arts?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.