Inside ‘Bittersweet’: Anna Silverman on Acting Without Armor
Anna Silverman has always felt like she was born in the wrong era. While the world around her rushes forward, chasing the next trend, she finds herself drawn back—back to a time of jazz, rebellion, and reinvention. The 1920s weren’t just a decade to her; they were a way of life, a world where women redefined themselves, where theatre was daring and alive, where art, fashion, and music collided in a golden explosion of creativity.As a young actress, Anna doesn’t just admire the era—she lives it. Every role she takes on is infused with the spirit of the women who once ruled the stage and the speakeasies, women who threw off the expectations of the past and embraced a future of their own making. She studies the way they spoke, the way they moved, the way they turned their lives into performances, never apologizing for their ambition. For her, the theatre of the 1920s is a dreamland—where playwrights dared to challenge society, where actresses weren’t just beautiful faces but bold, brilliant forces of nature. She finds inspiration in the silent film stars who told entire stories with a glance, in the flappers who danced until sunrise, in the writers who…