Emotions bring the abstract to life on stage Hoon Lee plays David Henry Hwang’s alter ego in the play “Yellow Face” (at The Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles). “There are large emotional outbursts in both acts,” Lee says, “and the biggest challenge is remaining open enough because I’m painting a character who’s not that likable. [...]
Judi Dench claims not to be “good at my own company.” Rather, to understand her own identity she needs to be in the attentive gaze of others – as the psychologist D. W. Winnicott puts it, “When I look I am seen, so I exist.” Dench is clear on this point. “I need somebody to [...]
“There is no prize, out there. The only prize is, this one, and what you feel and what you want to accomplish. … “I feel that I very often watch a lot of young people sort of meander around without any idea about why they’re doing what they’re doing. “I mean to want and to [...]
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