Subject: Re: Olympia interpretation?
From: Jessica
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on 2/1/00 7:28 PM, Kylie Purcell at furrball-at-arcadia.buseco.monash.edu.au
wrote: (snippage)
> I was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice on
> interpretation of Olympia from Tales of Hoffmann?
> all manner of stiff movements just won't work for me,
> My ideas were that for Hoffmann to be fooled by her she would
> have to be reasonably "life-like" but not too much.

Kylie, what if you make her very lifelike in all ways except one or two -
perhaps in the way she blinks (always wide-eyed to fully closed) and perhaps
that her fingers don't move separately, but always as a webbed hand type
thing? These two characteristics will be visible enough to the audience
without requiring you to be mannequin-like and will make her seem more
life-like too.

My $.02
Jessica