My partner and I are both actors and we just got cast in the same show but in a romantic subplot and we cannot figure out how to be these characters together without it feeling either weirdly clinical or inappropriately intimate. We keep overcompensating in different directions and neither of us can find the right professional distance.
More people experience this than they realize.
Real intimacy and theatrical intimacy require different kinds of truth, and the presence of one can make the other impossible to access.
“Where Are You with Theater and dramatic arts?”
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