How Actors Use Their Personal Lives to Solve Professional Problems

When I started the drama school’s fifth semester, I didn’t get along with our director. He wanted, anyway, that I use my “affective memory” — so far, so good — but through his techniques, which involved “writing a letter to someone who caused me a great trauma,” reading it to the class and other similar theatrical games. I was not too fond of his techniques and direction choices either, and we were always in conflict.

Also, I was looking forward to the fifth semester because we would retake body classes. My body is a…