tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801663515410909094.post6104781188036028962..comments2024-02-19T00:42:41.298-08:00Comments on Bungy Notes: Grace is in the RecoveryJonny Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461895600346750968noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801663515410909094.post-74343211151771239722010-01-31T16:09:55.858-08:002010-01-31T16:09:55.858-08:00Thanks for commenting on my blog--I'm glad you...Thanks for commenting on my blog--I'm glad you liked my hurrah for failure!<br /><br />One of the most wonderful things I've ever seen was a truly graceful flub-up that happened on stage in London in 2006. <br /><br />The play was the unremarkable "The Creeper," starring the remarkable late Ian Richardson. (I knew him from his role playing the wickedly mesmerizing prime minister in "House of Cards"). <br /><br />At a tense moment in the action, the actor is supposed to add some water to his Scotch, out of a soda siphon bottle. But when Richardson pushed the siphon, the soda water shot past his glass, spraying all over the floor. <br /><br />He looked startled, turned slightly, and said to the audience something like, "I hate it when they change these things."<br /><br />Everyone burst into laughter, but before the laughter had even started to begin to die down, Richardson had gone *entirely* back into character and carried on as if nothing had happened.<br /><br />I learned more about acting and what an art it is--and came to admire actors more-- in that single moment of witnessing grace under pressure than in anything I've ever seen.<br />It showed me how I might act too--the possibility that in real life I might have or could cultivate, as you say "the capacity to recover from the fumble."<br /><br />When Richardson died in his sleep in 2007, I felt a little personal grief, feeling I'd met the actual man, for a moment.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801663515410909094.post-55051508377679509712010-01-31T13:59:59.857-08:002010-01-31T13:59:59.857-08:00Beuatiful essay, reminds me of Fresca's on fai...Beuatiful essay, reminds me of Fresca's on failure at l'astronave:<br /><br />http://gugeo.blogspot.com/2009/12/permission-to-fail.htmlArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801663515410909094.post-91408308431965971602010-01-25T23:36:08.619-08:002010-01-25T23:36:08.619-08:00Interesting text! And somehow both pieces have the...Interesting text! And somehow both pieces have their own sort of elegance to them - the bull in particular looks very fetching with that whole determined, angry look about him! :DNancy Grönholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618580316237144473noreply@blogger.com