In late October, actors Ron Perlman and Sharon Stone, sitting across from each other in Cedering Fox’s home in Studio City, were rehearsing a dramatic reading of Margaret Atwood’s short story “Happy Endings.” The story attempts to predict what promising or grueling future is to come from John and Mary's relationship. Perlman and Stone swapped portions of the writing, building up their own character arcs out of a story written without one.
The same experience goes for the actors. Alfred Molina read a story by Nick Hornby for a performance in 2009. The story initially felt sad and melancholy, but when he brought it to an audience, he found humor in it. He even got “belly laughs” from the audience, he recalls. Actor Jason George compares the experience of performing literature to working with Shakespeare or Chekhov. It’s like dissecting heightened language that has layers of interpretation below the surface.
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