Famed British playwright David Hare has a few choice words about the American theatre’s “play development” process.
Author: OId Drama Prof
so what do these “wrong turns” add up to?
I recognize that it might seem counterintuitive for a blog called Theatre Inspirations to start out by looking at “wrong turns”–seems sort of negative to focus on mistakes of the past that we can’t change, right? One of the reasons I wanted to share these two moments in US theatre history is to make sure…
the first wrong turn: the birth of the theatrical syndicate
Well, we’re finally here! I apologize for all the cliffhangers. It’s just that this story is complicated, and I needed to try to get it straight in my mind before I even started. What makes it a hard story to tell is that it concerns a period of history and a practice of capitalism that…
the first wrong turn (preamble to the first wrong turn)
Preface to the First Wrong Turn.
margo jones, tyrone guthrie, and the second wrong turn
In 1951, Margo Jones published Theatre-in-the-Round, the inspiring story of Theatre ’50 (the name of the theatre changed each year on January 1st), one of the first regional theatres in the country, that she founded in Dallas. When you read histories of the regional theatre movement in America, all too often give only passing attention…
A Starting Point
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.” Peter Brook, The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate I…
introduction: three things you need to know before you read this blog
In which I describe what the heck this blog is about.
