ABSTRACT
Television sets its requirements for an actor: to be able to play sickening kitchen-sink drama in a year-long TV series, where the word ‘acting’ does not apply any more. To accept the equally sickening overacting in sitcoms where technique is not needed at all because the sound engineer will add hysterical laughter of the imaginary audience in the right moments so the real audience knows when to laugh …
I cannot help commenting:
And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That’s villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.
