Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Original Man

Michael Schulman, "Original Man Why Do So Many Directors Want to Work With Adam Driver?" New Yorker,  October 28, 2019, pp 54-63.

"One time he snapped so sharply at a student who had used his yoga mat that he reduced the guy to tears. "I was, like, I gotta be better at communicating," he said.  He holed up at the performing-arts library and read plays by David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley, and found that drama helped him express his roiling emotions."

COMMENT 

The library as refuge and self-directed learning for a student destined to become a well-known actor. The library provides a foundation for an unlikely career.