Ben and David are extremely, extremely successful actors who also give free acting advice. If you listen to them you will most likely become famous. If you don’t, things probably won’t pan out for you.
As acting experts, we probably seem like we always have the answers— because most of the time we do. But even we’ve had our weak moments. It’s hard for us to admit, but there was a time when we came close to quitting the business. We had just opened our newest self-produced/written/directed social action theater piece called, “Lunch Money, or Punch Money?: America’s Bullying Epidemic and the Tainting of U.S. Currency,” when we received one of the worst reviews of our lives.
A local critic started his blog post by saying, “Are these guys serious? This has to be a joke. I literally can’t tell if these guys are joking or not. They are terrible in a way that I have never seen.” As you can imagine, this was quite a blow. It was at that moment when we almost threw in the towel. But instead of letting this defeat us, we used it as motivation. We took those feelings and created another show called “Getting Bad Reviews: The Ben and David
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