Sarah is a recent Apprentice who debuted this season in Hamlet as the First Player and Fortinbras. You can catch her TONIGHT in the Conspirators’ The Resistible Rise of Her Helmut Drumpf, running these two weekends before the election. You can also see her this December in EDGE Theatre’s A Steampunk Christmas Carol as the Engineer. Sarah will be performing a leading role in King Lear on Monday, Dec 12, and a supporting role on Tuesday, Dec 13.
Q: How were you first introduced to Unrehearsed Shakespeare?
SARAH: I went to see friends in Richard III, attended several performances after that, and finally took the Unrehearsed technique class this summer!
Q: How does Unrehearsed differ from other acting experiences for you?
SARAH: One of my favorite things about performing is the rush of adrenaline you get right before you enter the stage. After so many shows, so many performances, it’s easy to lose that feeling and slip into autopilot. Due to the nature of Unrehearsed, it’s always there.
Q: What, if anything, is your biggest challenge with this technique so far?
SARAH: Keeping gestures relevant and specific to the text, rather than flailing about if I get lost (though that’s better than doing nothing!) Also, you may go into a scene knowing exactly what you intend to do with it, and then your scene partner throws you a proposal that completely shakes things up and you have to adapt to what’s actually happening, rather than cling to what you planned. It’s times like that where Unrehearsed can be the most fun!
Q: One of the defining attributes of Unrehearsed is the lack of a Fourth Wall. How do you feel about this? How does it affect your work and/or prep?
SARAH: It’s so much fun! (Especially because Unrehearsed audiences tend to react enthusiastically). The lack of a Fourth Wall can be especially helpful during a soliloquy when you have no one else onstage to interact with.
Q: What, to you, is the most intriguing thing about King Lear?
SARAH: The frequent references to the natural world and how the chaos that springs from Lear’s banishment of Cordelia is mirrored by the storm.
Q: If Lear asked you to flatter him, would you answer more like Cordelia or more like Goneril and Regan?
SARAH: Gah, what a question. I’d like to think that I would answer with Goneril and Regan’s positivity but with Cordelia’s genuineness so we’d all live happily ever after. End of play.
CLICK HERE to see Sarah in our recent production of Hamlet, or HERE.
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