{"id":6146,"date":"2007-03-23T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:43:21","slug":"commonplace-book-acting-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6146","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Are you acting well, my darling?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper, Jan. 2 1901<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Describe at least one rehearsal of Three Sisters for me.  Isn&#8217;t there anything which needs adding or subtracting?  Are you acting well, my darling?  But watch out now!  Don&#8217;t pull a sad face in the first act.  Serious, yes, but not sad.  People who had long carried a grief within themselves and have been accustomed to it only whistle and frequently withdraw into themselves.  So you can often be thoughtfully withdrawn on stage during conversations.  Do you see?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper, Jan. 2 1901: Describe at least one rehearsal of Three Sisters for me. Isn&#8217;t there anything which needs adding or subtracting? Are you acting well, my darling? But watch out now! Don&#8217;t pull a sad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,16],"tags":[194,1709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180294,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions\/180294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}