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<\/a>\u201cShe is so confused about whether the feelings she portrays on stage are her feelings or whether they\u2019re feelings that she\u2019s pretending to play because she\u2019s an actor,\u201d says Jevne. \u201cShe hopes to be able to isolate the authentic emotions she has from the counterfeit emotions that she is accustomed to creating for the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is also a belief that holds true personally for Jevne, who is a 1978 graduate of the \u201cancient\u201d Theatre program at Camosun. Losing touch of the line between your own motivations and the character\u2019s is one of the reasons Jevne steers clear of method acting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are manifesting physically and vocally and intentionally what the character\u2019s representing [you\u2019ll] use your own capacity as an emotional human being to\u2014and I hate the word \u2018channel\u2019\u2014but basically channel the character\u2019s intentions emotionally through the words that the playwright has written,\u201d says Jevne.<\/p>\n
The actors use their own authentic emotions when they do that, he says, adding that over the years, method acting has proven itself to be \u201ca really misguided effort\u201d because it robs the character of their own personality and motives, as well as the richness of the playwright\u2019s words.<\/p>\n
Instead of method acting, Jevne uses a three-step process when he directs that every human being goes through many times daily, he says, using feelings, intentions, and behaviours. But this process, he says, is sort of tacitly forbidden in the theatre world.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehavioural scientists have identified that every time we utter a phrase or think a phrase, those three things are in play,\u201d he says, \u201cso that\u2019s something that\u2019s based on psychological research.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a spontaneous aspect to Jevne\u2019s style of direction that mimics everyday life; that spontaneity and clarity is what replaces method acting. For Jevne, spontaneity is a big part of what sets theatre apart from real life: the actors have memorized what they\u2019re going to say, and if some of that spontaneity can be restored by going through a similar psychological process on stage and off, he says, theatre can be a transcendent experience that no other art form can capture.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an experience that I would pay almost any amount of money to have,\u201d he says. \u201cYou come out of theatre feeling aware of your complete potential as a human being because you haven\u2019t had to put up any barriers or walls to protect yourself, which we would in real life. You\u2019re totally aware of that feeling that is unhindered by any kind of worry that you might be vulnerable. It\u2019s like being completely vulnerable, with no worries about being completely vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n