"It's Good To Care As A Human Being But As An Actor It Has To Come With The Lightness Of Something Else."

Philippe brought two copies of the bible to school today to better equip him in his biblical-knowledge war against Mike...(not really). But Philippe did advise Mike again to say something for today, and for Bouffon - to lean towards comedy.

"You have to think 'what is funny?'."

"It's good to see God ashamed to be Jew...for comedy."

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Sam presented a new bastard - a sort of Scottish child abuser. She was big and alive, but she moved a lot and we didn't love Sam as the performer. Philippe got her to play her bastard a little, and then stop and smile at us to show her having fun (and when she was faking it, he got Mark to kiss her neck). "We have to see you having fun because you imitate this bastard, and when you imitate this bastard you kill him."

He then got her to do far less: to be light, to not move her body, to be slow, to be quiet... "When she is like this I like her. I am touched. And when she is bur-bur-bur I hate her."

"If you start without looking for something special as an actor it's mediocrity."

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Akron and Yuichi presented a scene from Ubu. 

"You have to have more fun to be disgusting...it has to be more vulgar."

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Tim presented an eternal love boring woman character who was a kind of new-age hippie.

But his imitation was really boring. Philippe then got Tim to have a loud shouting argument with him without moving, and he was much more alive, "having fun to pretend to be pissed off."

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Ben tried his apartheid speech again but this time dressed as a transvestite. Philippe got all the transvestites to sit on benches around Ben on stage, and for Ben to say the text like a gay queen.

 The idea being that a mixture of a transvestite costume, the fun of playing a gay queen, would make the apartheid speech absolutely ridiculous and thus destroy it. Unfortunately Ben couldn't quite find the gay voice and kept creeping back to his safe characters. He suggested that he finds it hard to be light with such a heavy issue for him. Philippe said "it's to good care as a human being but as an actor it has to come with the lightness of something else." He said the writer and director should have something to say, but the actor should be giving themselves and their lightness without worrying about saying anything in particular.