Acting Choices
There are no opportunities to be on stage right now, at least I hope there are not, but we can still write about acting. I don’t have a degree. I have been doing fringe, community theater, and improv for the past ten years in Seattle. I have taken some classes at Freehold: Step One, Two, and Three, as well as Acting for the Camera, and one intro to performance class at Pitt nine million years ago, so my opinions may be coming from a fairly uninformed place, but here they are. I am still trying to understand what, exactly is meant by acting “choices.” If you have spent much time in Fremont, in the northern part near Woodland Park Zoo, you might have seen an old Japanese fire engine. It’s red. It looks something like a flatbed pickup truck. It has Japanese writing on the sides. I’ve lived in Fremont for the past year or so and I have seen it many times. Today, I was walking past the apartment building at the northwest corner of Fremont Avenue and 45th Street and there was not o