Actor's Advice

During this rehearsal process, I had another show that I was doing along side called The Beauty Queen of Lennane, during this we had a acting coach come in and tell us some techniques that we could use for all plays and I tried to take this on board. He told us that a play is like a coiled spring and that tension needs to build up so it is almost unbearable and then be released. Luckily I felt me and Seamus had the majority of those tension releases that I could play with, for example discovering the first letter and Nora leaving Torvald. He also said acting is "rooting your feet to the floor and making constant eye contact with the other actor." I took this on board, though didn't necessarily agree with it entirely, though I did agree that eye contact is a very powerful tool for actors. He also said that you need to start acting before you go on stage, now everyone who knows me, knows that I spend the day of a show getting into character, so I did for this one, by for example wearing a wedding ring all day and sitting on my own in break and lunch preparing for the play.