{"id":6875,"date":"2014-09-14T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2014-09-14T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:14:37","slug":"the-eyes-of-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2014\/09\/14\/the-eyes-of-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"The eyes of the other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lahr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/09\/15\/caught-act\">profiles actor Al Pacino:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To Pacino, there is no such thing as a fourth wall. \u201cThe audience is another character in the play,\u201d he said. \u201cThey become part of the event. If they sneeze or talk back to the stage, you make it part of what you\u2019re doing.\u201d Once, when he was performing \u201cThe Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel,\u201d the first play in David Rabe\u2019s Vietnam trilogy, in Boston, in 1972, Pacino made a strong connection with a pair of penetrating eyes in the audience. \u201cI remember feeling a focus I never experienced before\u2014intense, so riveting that I directed my performance to that space,\u201d he said. \u201cI found at curtain call for the first time that I needed to find out who belonged to those eyes. So, as we were bowing, I looked over to the space where I believed the look was coming from and there it was, two seeing-eye dogs still looking at me. They must have found the curtain call as engaging as the performance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lahr profiles actor Al Pacino: To Pacino, there is no such thing as a fourth wall. \u201cThe audience is another character in the play,\u201d he said. \u201cThey become part of the event. If they sneeze or talk back to the stage, you make it part of what you\u2019re doing.\u201d Once, when he was performing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}