My third night of acting class is scheduled for Monday night. I love the class because it allows us to play with situations and interpretations, and invites us “to go for it” with our creativity. On Monday, I’ll be doing a monologue from “The Lion in Winter,” a 1967 screenplay about the Henry II’s battles with his Queen and three power driven sons in 1183. Here’s a typical line spoken by Richard of his own mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine: “You love nothing. You are incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You’re as dead as you are deadly.” When I read this line to my daughter over the phone this evening, she suggested I use it to end my next relationship. Actually, I was thinking of trying it on a particularly difficult opposing counsel to end our next phone conversation. The problem with the line is that it allows no escape. “Just kidding,” doesn’t really seem to work after a line like that.
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