Performing means taking risks but what about when those risks threaten your mental health?
Acting characters is fun, exciting, and at times, intoxicating but it is a dangerous craft. It is an artform that attracts many kinds of people, yet it is a considerably under-researched area of expertise, particularly in Australia.
Losing the self and becoming someone else are tropes sometimes associated with character acting, but the new term is transformational acting which, in my opinion, comes with work-related hazards.
