>>6324234I think Orson Welles recognized that most actors were homosexuals who had to resort to strong drink to be able to go about not only pretending (oftent passionately) to be someone else, but doing it in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Of course part of the problem is that modern drama, that is tragedy is a debasement of it's original form, that is to say a tragos odos, a goat ode, a dionysian liturgy in celebration of their Gods and plus their stage productions were sung, and were thus closer to oratorios.
Real actors in real tragedies are more comparable to say, a great voice in a Haendel Oratorio, like Theodora or David and Jonathan or Saul.
And those are rather more respectable and admirable and learned than the capering idiots in American film.
