The Honest Actor
What care I about the audience,
I am not a flatterer of senseless masses
where the individual is lost
in lack of personal integrity
and is not noticed by his acquiescent silence;
no, I want to have just friends around me,
audiences of individuals that are alive
and I can find some contact with,
with faces that you can identify and one by one observe,
so that you can direct yourself to real people.
If the theatre is almost empty
does not bother me -
the play is the important thing
and all the truth of it,
and if I can't get through
to audiences of anonymous masses,
then I'd rather stay without
and find myself some meaningful soliloquies instead.
The truth, the meaning and the word is all,
and if it's valid, a few members of an audience is enough,
in fact, the fewer and the less, the better,
for the easier you'll get the message through.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-06-03 at 19:16
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