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By TUTT STAPP-HARRIS
Ntwi Contributing Writer
“The last thing the audience should be focused on is the storyteller. The story is here” ■
Watching Julie Portman insistently point to the space at the center of the room lined with workshop participants, it seemed easy to believe that there was in fact a living, breathing story in the room with her. During the course of the Artists’ Forum’s fourth J987 workshop, thie director and actress, winner of the Obie Award and now a resident of Rappahannock, shared both techniques and insights on the transformation of folktales into theatre, and on making the invisible, visible.
“Imagine that you have something in your hand, and that something is your ‘HA.’ You’re going to take your ‘HA’ and throw it across - the room.” Winding up like a pitcher and demonstrating how to send both the imaginary “HA” and a strong vocal “HA!” exactly where she wanted them to go, Ms. Portman soon had the members of the assembled group — which included dancers, actors, writers, teachers, homemakers, high school students and a blacksmith — comfortably throwing their own “HA’s” back and forth.
Later, though, this seemingly simple exercise in voice projection became another illustration of the important distinction between the storyteller and his story: the tale is what we throw out for the audience to catch, not ourselves as performers. It is therefore not by “acting” aoH anmnr nw fmrvkfnnn/I 4-1*.«
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