You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what read more
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what read more
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive read more
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They read more
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to read more
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
