Read play: In the Blood by Suzan Lori-Parks,
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Respond to the following (200 word minimum):

Grotowski approaches actor training from the direction of the negative; what he calls the via negativa. Rather than asking the actor to do something, he asks the actor to resign from not doing it. The idea is to give up resistance. For it is resistance, either of the body or of the will, that stands in the way of the direct translation of impulse into action. (Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, p. 157)]

Prompt: What is meant to happen during a “spell”, according to Parks? How might Jerzy Grotowski’s “via negativa” inform this approach? In what ways do the “spells” speak to and about all of us? Examining character, how might they illuminate the specific character(s) reality regarding social, economic, societal, racial, and/or familial challenges and inequity?