“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” I CanSelfActorsCan DoCompanyPlayerIdentityJokesTheaterCertaintyVarietyPermanentUnwillingTroupe Author:Philip Roth
“Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.” KnowsShouldSaidFactsTodayActorsDifficultWonderIdentityOne DayShould HaveTheatreBeing YourselfRealisingDifficult ThingsWorkshopsJust Be Yourself Author:George Ogilvie
“I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.” ThinkingArtPoliticalArtistActorsIdentityMusicianStem Author:Carrie Brownstein