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September 19-25, 2002 cover story Gearing Up: John Lumia
Last season, with the critically acclaimed Amputation Nation, John Lumia took on one of the biggest challenges an actor can face: his own multicharacter one-man show. Now he’s in rehearsals for something even more daunting: the role of the villainous Iago in Othello, among the toughest roles in the Shakespearean canon. The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival production opens Oct. 4 with Brian Anthony Wilson (pictured, left, with Lumia) in the title role. What he does before the showBeing onstage scares the living hell out of me. [So] one thing I absolutely, automatically do before every show is spend a few minutes in the space -- walking through the house, contacting all of the seats in the house, and standing on the stage and facing the seats. It helps eliminate my fear of facing the audience... [and] it makes me feel excited about contacting them. Quiet timeIago is huge. I'm never offstage. I have to have that 10 minutes of solitude to breathe and collect my energy. With my solo show there's nothing else to fall back on if I'm sucking that night, and that's a very scary feeling. What he doesn't do anymoreOne thing I don't do which I used to do earlier in my career is try to plan what the performance is going to be. I try now to trust myself a little more and plan for surprises. On playing IagoHow do you connect all the dots on this guy? What I'm finding is that his motivations are simple: He hates Othello -- it doesn't matter why. He's somebody who unhatches a plan and improvises his way through it. In a sense I'm finding he's just an incredible actor.... I have to look at Iago as the hero of the play or else it doesn't work. 
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