Lincoln Center Day 6
Nothing to talk about on Day 5, so here we go with day 6:
Process will mirror Content- If there is a lot to mine, the process will draw out.
Designers can viewpoint with Architecture in Space. What if the set changes every day in rehearsal? With the designer there in the room, you can find new discoveries.
Damned if you do, Damned if you don't with new plays- Every big "institution" in American Theatre started with new plays, eventually they started to get big, Started to not be able to do new work and sustain an audience, so they do workshops of new works to feel like they are living up to their artistic mission. But this puts playwrights in workshop limbo, never being produced but always feeling like their is hope.
America may be losing what was once called "High Culture". (This is a direct quote from a Brazilian Director) I do have to agree a bit, it is not elitist to want high culture. It is about education more than it is about "Art". Newspaper readership is down, Any Performing Arts are losing audiences, dialogue and diplomatic thought are not in vogue, can this change?
Playwirghts are afraid to speak to actors in Verbs due to the hierarchy of the director relationship. The director needs to set up the environment. everyone is beholden to work the way the director wants to work.
Letting go process-playwrights have to let of their work, directors have to let go of their vision at some point and let the actors have it.
Don't workshop something if you have no plan on doing it. Theatre's are workshopping productions now to forge a realtionship with a playwright so they can grab up the plays and keep others from doing them
Some people just will not go to theatre, that's Ok, accept it.
Words are powerful. Why call it anything. If you call it tablework, it sets up the expectation of sitting at a table for days and being talked at, an enviroment based off of past results. Those that need to be at a table can be there, those that need to get up and move or work in another way should be a llowed to. Everyone comes in with preconceived notions about something, don't give them more reason to. why call it rehearse ( literally to re-hear) when you can say we are going to work tonight, we are going to probe tonight?
I've noticed that the younger Actors do not speak in these group settings. Why? Is it fear of repercussions, not being cast, being thought of as a difficult actor with, my god, opinions? Or is it just a matter of being more outspoken as you get older as is the case with thte more mature actors here? Has American Theatre training taught us to "not rock the boat" "Be nice, they could get you work"? How does this set up an environment for dialogue and growth? Pushing the boundaries? Creation?
Process will mirror Content- If there is a lot to mine, the process will draw out.
Designers can viewpoint with Architecture in Space. What if the set changes every day in rehearsal? With the designer there in the room, you can find new discoveries.
Damned if you do, Damned if you don't with new plays- Every big "institution" in American Theatre started with new plays, eventually they started to get big, Started to not be able to do new work and sustain an audience, so they do workshops of new works to feel like they are living up to their artistic mission. But this puts playwrights in workshop limbo, never being produced but always feeling like their is hope.
America may be losing what was once called "High Culture". (This is a direct quote from a Brazilian Director) I do have to agree a bit, it is not elitist to want high culture. It is about education more than it is about "Art". Newspaper readership is down, Any Performing Arts are losing audiences, dialogue and diplomatic thought are not in vogue, can this change?
Playwirghts are afraid to speak to actors in Verbs due to the hierarchy of the director relationship. The director needs to set up the environment. everyone is beholden to work the way the director wants to work.
Letting go process-playwrights have to let of their work, directors have to let go of their vision at some point and let the actors have it.
Don't workshop something if you have no plan on doing it. Theatre's are workshopping productions now to forge a realtionship with a playwright so they can grab up the plays and keep others from doing them
Some people just will not go to theatre, that's Ok, accept it.
Words are powerful. Why call it anything. If you call it tablework, it sets up the expectation of sitting at a table for days and being talked at, an enviroment based off of past results. Those that need to be at a table can be there, those that need to get up and move or work in another way should be a llowed to. Everyone comes in with preconceived notions about something, don't give them more reason to. why call it rehearse ( literally to re-hear) when you can say we are going to work tonight, we are going to probe tonight?
I've noticed that the younger Actors do not speak in these group settings. Why? Is it fear of repercussions, not being cast, being thought of as a difficult actor with, my god, opinions? Or is it just a matter of being more outspoken as you get older as is the case with thte more mature actors here? Has American Theatre training taught us to "not rock the boat" "Be nice, they could get you work"? How does this set up an environment for dialogue and growth? Pushing the boundaries? Creation?
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