The Uninflected Performance

The more you load your performance with clever ideas and inflect it with your desire to communicate something, the less powerful it will become.

The simple, the still, the uninflected performance leaves room for the audience.

The inflected performance, crammed with meaning, increases your self-consciousness as you attempt to convey something on the theme of the script.

The uninflected performance demand the audience’s interaction with it, they see what they wish to see, they share the journey of the character because they identify with them. That identification is stronger, the more ‘good ideas’ the actor leaves out.

Your performance is a collaboration between you and the audience, you need to leave space for them. Their imagination fills the gap, but only if you let it.

If you spend your time showing them your clever ideas, they will stand outside your performance and judge you as a performer and not become sucked into your performance.

COACH