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I think the problem for a lot of stage acting is that it's so
often concerned with the actor's desire to make sure that he
or she is connecting with the audience. So, there's always
this little thing, this patronizing thing, that they are
always one little second ahead of the audience telling them
what they should feel and what is coming next. I don't want
performers to be responsible for this. This should be the
responsibility of the piece as whole, it's not down to
individual performers.
So the ego of the performer has to push to the back?
In some ways, in other ways it's pure narcissism. you have
to have a certain kind of narcissism because you have to trust
that the audience will watch whatever you do. A lot of actors
have egoism, but they don't have this kind of narcissism.
Maybe the egoism comes from film, where the actors always want
to make sure that they are doing something important -- this
is so different from the narcissist, who simply doesn't care.
-- Elizabeth LeCompte, interviewed by Andrew Quick in The
Wooster Group Work Book
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