Keep the talking. Do not go quiet — quiet would be another performance and a worse one.
Only move it to after the work instead of into the middle of it.

The room does not need less of you. The set needs all of you for ninety seconds.
Those two have never once been in conflict.
You invented the conflict because it excused you, and it was a good invention, and it lasted two years.

The Book of the Bard — Return 54:7