{"id":7677,"date":"2008-01-31T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2015-06-06T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T12:11:09","slug":"acting-chekhov-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7677","title":{"rendered":"Acting Chekhov: efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/188039927X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=188039927X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=T4AZKNK5F4E5TYLZ\">The Actor&#8217;s Chekhov: Nikos Psacharopoulos and the Company of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, on the Plays of Anton Chekhov<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=188039927X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikos Psacharopoulos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think somebody must have told actors that being efficient is great.  When they come into an audition they change shirts and open bags and move chairs and readjust \u00e2\u0080\u0093 all these things that are totally unnecessary \u00e2\u0080\u00a6 I love somebody to come in and do it with a sense of \u00e2\u0080\u00a6 not a sense of efficiency, but a sense of proportion, to just stand up there and use themselves in the best possible way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=188039927X&#038;asins=188039927X&#038;linkId=EQBD26BCLSB3YVRR&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from The Actor&#8217;s Chekhov: Nikos Psacharopoulos and the Company of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, on the Plays of Anton Chekhov: Nikos Psacharopoulos: I think somebody must have told actors that being efficient is great. When they come into an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677"}],"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=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103566,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions\/103566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}