Directors on Directing: A Source Book of the Modern TheatreToby Cole, Helen Krich Chinoy Less than 200 years ago the director was only an "ideal" projected by disgruntled critics. Today, productions wouldn't be able to survive with our the adept talents of the director. This book has been known for years as the guide to the "unknown theater" of the director. This collection is comprised of the voices of the modern theater as they state their credos and explore their craft. Topics include: the emergence of the director; behind the fourth wall; the art of rehearsal; light and space; and much more. Directors and avid theater-buffs. |
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Page 170
... spectator , and the other liberates both actor and spectator , permitting the latter to use his imagination actively rather than merely to contemplate . These two systems are best understood if the four fundamentals of the theater - the ...
... spectator , and the other liberates both actor and spectator , permitting the latter to use his imagination actively rather than merely to contemplate . These two systems are best understood if the four fundamentals of the theater - the ...
Page 171
... spectator . This is the other kind of theater - the " straight theater . " The actor freely reveals his soul to the spectator after having incorporated the work of the director , just as the director had incorporated the work of the ...
... spectator . This is the other kind of theater - the " straight theater . " The actor freely reveals his soul to the spectator after having incorporated the work of the director , just as the director had incorporated the work of the ...
Page 184
... spectator will inevitably fall under the spell of Molière's theater ? And would any detail of this creative genius be lost upon the spectator ? Don Juan is being performed without a curtain . There was none in the theaters of Palais ...
... spectator will inevitably fall under the spell of Molière's theater ? And would any detail of this creative genius be lost upon the spectator ? Don Juan is being performed without a curtain . There was none in the theaters of Palais ...
Contents
Helen Krich Chinoy | 3 |
George II Duke of SaxeMeiningen | 81 |
André Antoine | 89 |
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