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, 10:48 pmWalter Plinge
Leah Maher wrote:
> Man oh man, now not only am I not entitled to an opinion, I'm also not a feminist,
> because I chose not to go nude that way that "women who actually care about
> reclaiming images of their bodies and sexuality" do. So I stand accused of lumping
> all men into the same basket they way that you just did with women David?
Huh?
Sorry, but this paragraph actually makes no discernible sense. I think it's the combination of poor spelling, poor syntax, and an unclear point/question.
> And I am actually considered "sexist" because I try to live with the comments I
> get from my closest friends, without degenerating into a humourless shrew?
Again, where did you learn to construct a sentence?
(btw, this isn't a spelling flame, this a genuine desire to understand what the hell this person is on about!)
*snipped: lots of poorly constructed stuff (both gramatically and intellectually)*
> we live in Perth, not in Melbourne where such cosmopolitan ideas find ready
> audiences, PERTH where we get Racheal Friend and Rob Guest because no-one
> thinks we will notice.
So, again, we should just accept this limitation and live with it... just wallow in our own backwardness because we can't be @!#$ giving anyone anything truly significant? I'm with Paul on this one: let's do some wacky @!#$ for a change, really shake people up.
I detest complacency, cynicism, and negativism. And if my tone towards you is stroppy tonight, Leah, it's beause you've amply demonstrated all three to me in this thread.
And frankly, for this particular debate, I find this medium quite frustrating. Grant, I know you're reading in... can we organise a Green Room on nudity, feminism and exploitation as it relates to the theatre? I feel like going head to head in person on this one.
D.M.
> Man oh man, now not only am I not entitled to an opinion, I'm also not a feminist,
> because I chose not to go nude that way that "women who actually care about
> reclaiming images of their bodies and sexuality" do. So I stand accused of lumping
> all men into the same basket they way that you just did with women David?
Huh?
Sorry, but this paragraph actually makes no discernible sense. I think it's the combination of poor spelling, poor syntax, and an unclear point/question.
> And I am actually considered "sexist" because I try to live with the comments I
> get from my closest friends, without degenerating into a humourless shrew?
Again, where did you learn to construct a sentence?
(btw, this isn't a spelling flame, this a genuine desire to understand what the hell this person is on about!)
*snipped: lots of poorly constructed stuff (both gramatically and intellectually)*
> we live in Perth, not in Melbourne where such cosmopolitan ideas find ready
> audiences, PERTH where we get Racheal Friend and Rob Guest because no-one
> thinks we will notice.
So, again, we should just accept this limitation and live with it... just wallow in our own backwardness because we can't be @!#$ giving anyone anything truly significant? I'm with Paul on this one: let's do some wacky @!#$ for a change, really shake people up.
I detest complacency, cynicism, and negativism. And if my tone towards you is stroppy tonight, Leah, it's beause you've amply demonstrated all three to me in this thread.
And frankly, for this particular debate, I find this medium quite frustrating. Grant, I know you're reading in... can we organise a Green Room on nudity, feminism and exploitation as it relates to the theatre? I feel like going head to head in person on this one.
D.M.
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