ON ACTING: A Metaphor of Performance Excellence

An excellently performed scene is one in which the actor-as-character feels as if he/she were walking a narrow tightrope, trying to fight through the wind and other buffeting resistances, to get safely to the other side where something of great importance resides...and in her/his gut feeling fat every moment the reality of 3000 feet of open air beneath him/her and the deady hard ground.