🎭 That one error
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins.— Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4
[ACTING TIPS]
There is a Japanese proverb; Ichi-ji ga Ban-ji, meaning: one thing leads to all.
Proteus realizes the same.
To play the words, I would say Proteus must be filled with remorse.
I am not yet quite sure what, for Proteus, is the first “that one error”.
When I don’t yet know the answer, I try acting all the possibilities.
Was the first error to leave Verona?
Or to obey his father?
Remember the first lines of Act 2, Scene 6, when he counterbalanced the weight of the sins he was about to commit.
“O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!”
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