After a long rehearsal and a lot of planning, actors know how to substitute themselves for the characters (mostly without creating problems for the actors themselves). They can be “clear about drawing distinctions between performance and life. Ms. Grant believes in ‘really healthy, strong boundaries,’ she said, and as Mr. Hernandez put it,’This is literally my job. I went to school for it. I’m not skeezing on anybody. It is in the text.’ No carnal appetite here.”
Category: theatre
Actor Michelle Terry Will Take Over From Emma Rice At The Globe
The Shakespearean actor said it was “a dream come true,” despite the fact that she’s succeeding another woman, Emma Rice, whose vision for the Globe was famously undercut when the theatre’s board decided to force her out (Rice is headed to the Old Vic).
Avant Garde Theatre Is Mainstream In The Netherlands
Can the U.S. ever catch up? Hm. “Americans say we are modern and experimental. … But for me, I don’t see that. I don’t think it’s that much of a provocative performance at all.”
Are There Playwrights (Aside From Mamet) Who Actually *Do* Want To Hear From The Audience In Talkbacks?
Suzan-Lori Parks: “I love them because they are difficult. If they were easy I wouldn’t find them as delightful and delicious.”
This Is What Happens When Britain Invades Broadway
Real glassware in the theatre bar, for one thing. And the patrons like it. “‘It shows class,’ said Billy-Grace Ward of Manhattan, who was drinking Champagne before a performance of 1984. ‘It’s not a disposable experience.'”
An Immense Screw-Up Over A New Building May Kill This Drama School In England
One of the current students; “It’s sad to see such a unique, outstanding, renowned college be let down by a bunch of suits who didn’t make their mind up over the future of it, and there’s at least a hundred of us that have been left with the mess they patched together for us.”
When New Yorkers Rioted Over How To Perform ‘Hamlet’
“When Major-General Charles Sandford recalled the scene at the Astor Place Theatre on May 10, 1849, it was with a sentiment one would not normally associate with a night at the theater. ‘During a period of thirty-five years of military service,’ wrote the general, ‘I have never seen a mob so violent as the one on that evening. I never before had occasion to give the order to fire.'”
Why I Wanted My Asian-American Daughter To See Asian-American Actors Playing Shakespeare
Nicole Chung writes about her meaningful mother-and-child trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Winter’s Tale.
How Much Adult Content Is Desirable In Children’s Theatre?
“I as a director do not feel it is my responsibility to have a dialogue with a young person about subject matter that should be left to the parents. So to do a scene that is dealing with sex — I mean, I have trouble even just communicating a kiss and the emotion of love and attraction, let alone talking through a scene where they’re having sex. There’s no way I could ever do anything like that.”
Yes, Tony Kushner Is Writing A Play About Donald Trump
“The play, he says, will not focus on the Trump presidency itself, but will be set two years before the election. Kushner says he will try to write Trump as a direct character, rather than anything oblique or symbolic. ‘He’s the kind of person, as a writer, I tend to avoid as I think he is borderline psychotic,’ Kushner says. ‘I definitely think that incoherence lends itself well to drama, but he really is very boring. It’s terrifying because he has all the power, but without the mental faculties he ought to have.”