Moments of Magic

Week Ten: RJ's Goodbye

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.

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

Romeo & Juliet (class clip)

“… 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.

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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.

Cymbeline (class clip)

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

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It’s Sunday Funday!