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15 ENDOWMENT ‘This probably is : Fag sProbably is the fs exercise Ca "Sere Memory” ad thn fe Teh ou engmment exercise, find circumstances under ould Rave etd be deating with tangible objects which et on stage. For cumple bred Properties tht should not be with the le. take a cup of water and endow Property of steaming hot coffee. Don't just think i Endowment refore allowing it to slide down your throat, how a sees pul st a8 you swallow and your ‘mouth opens and Year and thn ake ai 0 el your mouth Sa yon ene cup of cold water becomes hot cafes and says chat way. oo Ka ne nt even want 10 apply real lipstick om wage, ect Sith nervout hands on an opening night it could slip becanse Mjge of my mouth, If there is no room in my stage ore eering cold cream and tissues and fresh powder to pei the damage, T would rather endow a model, plastic Freie with eolor and greasinss as Iatretch my lips (already dade up) and smear it on evenly. T eeember seeing the final dress rehearsal of & play in which a lover was walking out on his mistres. During the TERR of the action she had to polish his shoes as one way of Greventng his leaving her. ‘The acres was wearing a pearl- Fay dre and the shoe polish was black. As she knelt on the floor, a shoe in one hand, the cloch with polish in the other, the can of black polish om the floor in front of her, she was cxying and pleading with him to stay with fe. Soom she had globe of polish on her face, hands, and all over her gray Eosume. Te was quite realistic except for one thing. At the fend of the seen, the curtain was lowered for only a second fd rose again forthe next soene which took place a few dayt later, Fler coxtame and face were stil covered with Black. In following performances, the inside ofthe shoe polish can was Duinted Back, without real pois init, and the actress had found the correct behavior of working with i, the loth and the shoe, to that not only she but the audience believed she ‘was actully using real pois in The Farewell Supper by Arthur Sehnitaer, once had to eat an enormous five-course gourmet real on stage eight times a week, If all the food had been realy as specified, T outa have been unable ro eat iin che timespan of my sage ng THE onjrcr & xe life, I would have gained ten root become sick-cerainly on ‘matinee Pots, tuted for the food looked like much ner V2" ‘neither rich, fattening fo tl io a ‘nor filling - wih ovee kn uses, Eso eo sae si =e ‘me a round of applause as I piled ir siping. and 2 use piled into the Prough, Mite ey mda y seenes call for sewing and threading n ‘The panic which sets in as she i in 1¢ takes that small ng ec ere re fis a Spon acer acs Seat ei oop ec ating tbat fermtelors pet i eee pra never ween MT Bes threaded, may T use the small needle and Any object wi ject which cannot be handled and controlled readily for the i ree, the Purpose to which you want to put it in your ‘action becomes a dangerous object. And there are bot Fo Rally dangerous objecs—sharp knives, boul bottles, liquor, etc. If it is one of wi ME YON do abou it, You undoubedly when you burned or cut yourself ag Eudowment i if or were hurt by someone agar ai ania 10 Your » a wnerever an object is not psy dangers sO ‘above, start experimenting—Iet’s say, with wae Se ea pin on re ul es peer hazard i it spilled or Ro on Your hands). First, really i iad en ah an ergy tte we eeu can econ the behavior of aealy Bras nd ocing che plsh on your na until you fd and eer hat, by refer, you will blow on your tals to such elt pe ae dy, and you wll handle the next object ma el for fear of marring the polish. ite renee nd atlas three tangible objects to ender Jean physieal properties which would otherwise com ut

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