Femme Fatale
“The playing of any instrument involves emotion as well as expertise and musicality, but none of this requires acting.Acting uses the emotions as a musician uses an instrument and is quite a different discipline, she said. She herself was a singer-actor. Or an actor-singer, depending on the role. Her new “closet opera” about the wives of Henry VIII was custom-made for a singer-actor like herself, which was why she was so excited about the project.Precisely why I was so unexcited about the projec...t: it had been initiated by Sherlock Holmes! Considering this while thinking of Irene’s definitions of performance, I had to decide whether Sherlock Holmes was a detective-actor, or an actor-detective. He thrived, as Irene did, on disguise, on reshaping himself to deceive others. This was more than an exercise in vanity, although it had that aspect.It was a certain natural defense, like the chameleon’s, that permitted each of them to penetrate rungs of society that would never accept them on their apparent aspects.MoreLess
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