I saw this today and thought it was great. This is good stuff for me to remember as I am in rehearsals for Jekyll & Hyde and working to foster an environment where actors can create. A safe place for them to make mistakes. I think it is only through making those mistakes and having the freedom to make them that we arrive where we need to be in the process of making a play. The following is out of a book called Days of Healing, Days of Joy by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty:
"I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating thoughts are expressions of shame. Because repeated thoughts turn into beliefs and long-held beliefs turn into actions, thoughts rooted in shame can lead to tragedy.
People who live in shame come to believe that it is not okay to make a mistake. They imagine they should know what to do without having to learn it. They think their wrong judgments mean they themselves are wrong.
But it is human to make mistakes. If we acknowledge we are human, we are defining ourselves as people who always have something to learn (Thomas Edison failed to perfect the light bulb until his ten-thousandth try). We are saying we have to keep going if our plans don't work out right away (Walt Disney went bankrupt seven times before he met with success).
"Thou shalt not be human" is the command of shame. What rubbish! How can we be anything else? Why would we want to be?
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