Acting After Illness #15 Backstory

My backstory is everything from the moment I was born to now, this moment, writing this blog.I, all of us, carry our backstories around with us, in our heads, 24/7.In training to be an actor, time was spent on building backstories for the characters I was playing.The hope is that an underlining of the dialogue from the script, with a backstory, would bring about truth to my performance.It was like being back at school, doing "a school project", on say, Winston Churchill.Scissors and glue at the