Theatre | The Guardian: Derek Jacobi had a bout of it during a world tour of Hamlet. Bill Nighy wrestled with it in the run-up to The Vertical Hour opening on Broadway. Juliet Stevenson has likened it to “a disease”. It has even caused some to take flight: Stephen Fry disappeared from Cell Mates, while Lenny Henry left the stage during Educating Rita. “I’ve completely gone,” he said – although he did return to finish the show.
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Rose-Bremner’s school teacher’s advice that “You cannot think of two things at once,” is actually very helpful to me. The way I deal with stage fright in the case of public speeches is to just push myself. While this does get to the end product of having spoken in front of people in public, I think this new advice may achieve a better speech. If I am thinking of the way I want to say my words, I might not be as stressed because at least there would be less of me thinking of all of the people in the room. I remember listening to a podcast where one of the people on it recounted a story similar to Syal's. She had gone into the audition room in hopes for a lead detective role. She had practiced so much, but her stress overrode that practice, and she delivered the whole monologue in jumbled syllables that did not form actual words.
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