Culture: Less Power to Television Presenter' Elbows Please ; Theatre
Birmingham Post › October 08, 2008
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I am a non-practitioner in the gentle arts of theatre and television. I venture no further than the sidelines - but I cannot help noticing the parallels and paradoxes they display.
Many years ago, I saw a popular TV sitcom man in a stage play - and it was obvious that nobody had told him that a stage performance demands more than the conversational tones that are all right on television. It needs something called "projection" - and he did not have any.See the full content of this document
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Culture: Less Power to Television Presenter' Elbows Please ; Theatre
On the other hand, while it is fine to sit and talk on stage - albeit a bit more loudly than normal - without enlisting support from hands and arms, it seems that you are not allowed to get away with this on television.
On television, a conversation between, say, a n...See the full content of this document
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