Monday, May 19, 2008

What I want to do onstage

I think I've finally put it into words.

I would like to rescue and revive plays, which have been either forgotten or deemed far-gone, by dramatizing their inherent stageworthiness and by exposing their absolute immediacy, of both structure and content.  I want to accomplish this by imposing horridly on the author's perhaps "original" intent with all sorts of theatre magic that the play itself struggles to rise above, and emerges triumphantly as more contemporary and immediate than anything that I might throw at it.

In other words, I like to be an asshole to plays, because I love them.  Like I do to people.

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