The Work Of A Director

There Are Prophets, There Are Guides, And There Are Argumentative People With Theories, And One Must Be Careful To Discriminate Between Them.

The Work Of A Director Can Be Summed Up In Two Very Simple Words. Why And How.

I Can Take Any Empty Space And Call It A Bare Stage.

Nothing In Theatre Has Any Meaning Before Or After. Meaning Is Now.

Theatres, Actors, Critics And Public Are Interlocked In A Machine That Creaks But Never Stops. There Is Always A New Season In Hand And We Are To Busy To Ask The Only Vital Question Which Measures The Whole Structure. Why Theatre At All? What For? Is It An Anachronism, A Superannuated Oddity? Surviving Like An Old Monument Or A Quaint Custom? Why Do We Applaud And What? Has The Stage A Real Place In Our Lives? What Function Can It Have? What Could It Serve? What Could It Explore? What Are Its Special Properties?