You can either BE a character or intellectually KNOW who the character is
Andrei Malaev-Babel explains the words by Demidov by saying You can either BE a character, and be in the heat of the moment, or intellectually KNOW who the character is, what the character does or wants – one or the other. I can either be inside a story or be outside of it and “tell a […]
Solve et Coagula
“The desperate need for coagulation.” In the world of alchemy, the precursor of science-based thinking, magic, and logic were intertwined. In the “golden bough” a book by anthropologist James George Frazer, one can see the history of magic, reason, religion, and science. It all starts with a need to “control” the environment and fate. A crude example of what […]
The illiterate actor of the 21st century and a war against the author and the text.
“Text is the enemy of the actor…” A famous teacher once said…. but a gentleman never tells who… Well ok Meisner said it! yeah, apparently I am not much of a gentleman… Let me be clear text IS YOUR FRIEND! And you know how it goes, introductions matter when you first meet someone. So a friend […]
The love for art and the love for me, me, me.
A phenomena I see is the perpetual love for self in art instead of art for art sake. Stanislavski said it best, when he called out “don’t love yourself in art, but the art inside you”, the problem was in all probability as prevalent then as it is now. I am not saying loving yourself […]
FINDING YOUR SHADOW AS AN ARTIST
There is a social construct, isn’t there, a social norm, a social bulldozer that wants to level out and iron out everything. And it does. We agreed years ago (unfortunately) to be half. We all chimed, smiled, and danced to a Monty Python like tune “look at the bright side of life,” (a song meant […]
“Poor Theatre Costs”
Part A(By Robert Cohen) In the winter of 1982–83, Professor Andy Harris of Columbia University contacted David MacDonald with an intriguing proposal: Jerzy Grotowski was in the United States and wanted to visit California. Andy wanted to know if we were interested in such a visit and perhaps a series of lectures from Grotowski at […]
