Tonight – behind a door I listened as the audience excitedly settled into their seats, the music reached a crescendo then faded and for the first time in almost ten years the lights dropped and I walked out in blue… It was awful.
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Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German-born American actress. She originated the role of Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee (who called her “a profoundly truthful actress”). Hagen was on the Hollywood blacklist, in part because of her association with Paul Robeson, and this curtailed film opportunities, focusing her to perform in New York theaters. She won the Tony Award three times. She later became a highly influential acting teacher at New York’s Herbert Berghof Studio and authored a best-selling acting texts, Respect for Acting and A Challenge for the Actor. She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.
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Often those of us who experience anxiety and panic are too focused on the world around us – what we are trying to achieve in it, or how it is perceiving, judging, and measuring our every move. It is important for us to take a moment to reflect to become mindful of ourselves in the present. Mindful Meditation helps us do that. It assists with relaxation and hepling us to slow down reflect and breath [click to continue…]
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