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Week Ten: RJ's Goodbye

Mar 9, 2023
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Happy Thursday! Welcome back to Acting Class Daily. Today we’re personalizing the work with a themed knicknack from this week’s class, a formative moment of magic … and, most importantly, Bauer’s chance to say hello.


Romeo and Juliet “Goodbye” (Elysium Conservatory Theatre - 2017)

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“… In all of my life I don’t know if I’ll ever taste what that goodbye is like. I want to know it. I want to go there. I want to taste that end of the human condition.”

Here’s what I know of their letting go.

That final taste of touch, as their hands part.

The very last moment they’d ever have together.


Here’s a shot of the Harvey Theatre at The Brooklyn Academy of Music. It’s almost my exact vantage point from the audience during the Cymbeline moment from this week’s episode.

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During the show a semi-circle of cushions were set up in front of the first row.

It’s Sunday Funday!
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