Improviser Margers Majors: Stage Skills Help Beyond the Spotlight
Improviser Margers Majors tells the Latvijas Radio programme "Monopols" how experience performing before an audience helps in daily life, when the cameras and stage lights are off. He says characters he has created help him in various situations.
Improviser Margers Majors has spoken on the Latvijas Radio programme "Monopols" about how far performing skills help when the spotlights are switched off and the cameras are no longer rolling. The conversation was published in the culture section of LSM, Latvia's public broadcasting news site.
Performing in front of an audience is an essential part of Majors' everyday work. He uses these skills when filming humorous segments for the Latvijas Televīzija (Latvian Television) programme "Kultūrdeva", when leading wedding ceremonies in an emotional way, and when playing roles in improvisation theatre, where performances are created on the spot.
The headline of the interview highlights his own words that characters he has created help him in various situations. In the programme he reveals how stage experience and the building of characters are useful even when there is no audience or camera to perform for.
The conversation offers a look at the improviser's profession, which spans television work, public events and theatre.
