Heard about the actor’s nightmare? It’s a variation of the dream in which you find yourself completely out of place and unprepared for a given situation. You know, like being in the produce section of a grocery store, standing behind a stack of vegetables and hoping no one notices your naked. Or perhaps it’s the covid-era dread of sitting in a crowded classroom and realizing you’ve left your mask at home.
In the actor’s nightmare, a performer stands clueless before a packed house, unable to remember a single line of dialogue.
The dream is so prevalent among actors that Christopher Durang devoted an entire play to it, fittingly … [read more at The 21st-Century Scop].