<p>Fishbowl- Amen.</p>
<p>About the UK/US schooling comment, I have a book called Will Power by John Basil about learning how to act Shakespeare. Basil once hated Shakespeare but after going to a lecture given by John Barton, the Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he did a full 180 and started learning more, and eventually developed a system of learning Shakespeare based on what the speaker outlined as the British technique. Apparently, Barton talked about how the British work on a set acting technique(classical training, I suppose) , and the Americans are all about emotion and method acting(or variations- this was in the 80s), and he said that American actors could be so much better at Shakespeare than the Brits if we could combine a good solid technique with our emotional connection to the material. We tend to get bogged down with technique, but Barton felt its simpler to learn. So I suppose the difference in years for schooling could have something to do with that…</p>