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O Me Unhappy! [Shakespeare For You]

🎭 O me unhappy!

— Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4

[ACTING TIPS]

This Act 5, Scene 4 is really not understandable for reasonable people.

Listening to Valentine, Proteus apologized.

And what happens?
Valentine gives Silvia for thanks to his apology.

Whaaaaaat???!!!

And Julia says this.
And she swoons.

Swoon means one faints out of extreme emotion.
That’s what we have to act.

But how?

How are we going to go through extreme emotion safely on stage?

Part of us must be really take control over the character.
By doing so, let the character go.

Very very difficult.

There are many safe ways to make extreme emotions.
If you do not know the safe way, you and the people around you would be in danger (mentally, physically, socially).  

So, have a proper acting coach during the rehearsal of this kind of scene.

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