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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Actors Acting

Wise, wise words from Tim Crouch.











Tim Crouch writes about his latest show The Author that just ran in LA.
Posted by E. Hunter Spreen at 9:33 PM
Labels: actors acting, Audience/Performance, critical strategies, models of production, SOTP, The Territory

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