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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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical read more
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something
The center of the stage is where I am.
The center of the stage is where I am.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's read more
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
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 theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about read more
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
