Nudity - the actor's POV
Mon, 28 Aug 2000, 07:55 pmWalter Plinge37 posts in thread
Nudity - the actor's POV
Mon, 28 Aug 2000, 07:55 pmPurely as a hypothetical question (at this stage, anyway): how do the actors out there in community theatre feel about nudity?
Would you do it? If so, under what circumstances? If not, please give reasons.
I'm talking serious nudity here; not "underwear nudity", but actual nudity: full frontal, topless, etc.
Would it be unreasonable of a director to ask a large portion (if not all) of their cast to appear fully nude, for instance in plays like "Hair", or "Steaming"?
And would be unreasonable of a director to apply for a season with a local group with a play or production that will require nudity to work effectively? Could he/she find a cast?
I open the topic for discussion....
D.M.
Would you do it? If so, under what circumstances? If not, please give reasons.
I'm talking serious nudity here; not "underwear nudity", but actual nudity: full frontal, topless, etc.
Would it be unreasonable of a director to ask a large portion (if not all) of their cast to appear fully nude, for instance in plays like "Hair", or "Steaming"?
And would be unreasonable of a director to apply for a season with a local group with a play or production that will require nudity to work effectively? Could he/she find a cast?
I open the topic for discussion....
D.M.
RE: Nudity - the actor's POV
Thu, 31 Aug 2000, 05:21 pmDear David "wobbly bits" Meadows
I thought the question I was answering was would I go on stage starkers. Yet you accused me of having a problem with public nudity. I don't have a problem with public nudity, I have a problem with MY public nudity, and I was trying to say why.
And, Mr Artistic, you must be the greatest mind ever to be able to live artistically in a vaucuum with out what you put on stage being effected by or effecting socio-economic realities. Female nudity usually equals female sexuality, and female sexuality has been used to exploit and ojectify for so long now that even your high and mighty artistic ideals must admit that not everyone in the audience is as pure in heart mind and intention as you are. Mr Schulz certainly isn't. And I, and probably most of the women on this board (speak now ladies and agree or disagree with me) would be of the opinion that he is more indicative of the average male mind than you are, (The trick is to rise above it and love them anyway.) if indeed you are so completely able to switch off your natural instinct as you say you are. I don't believe anyone is that advanced.
Leah "no wobbly bits" Maher
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