A Revolution in Emotion: The Alba Technique
Patricia Angelin
I have never told this story before: it always seemed to belong to the other actor, not to me. It was an onstage moment of pure unadulterated terror: I, as Laura in “The Glass Menagerie,” looked up into the eyes of my mother, Amanda, and saw – not Amanda, not a mother at all, but another Laura – another self; and suddenly, inexorably, she grabbed onto me through the eyes…we were immersed in each other’s terror, we were about to drown in emotion – really drown – together. It was horrifying!
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