Friday, 4 June 2021

Pinter-esque

All:  Harold Pinter was a great British playwright of the 20th century and was known for a style of theatre known as "comedy of menace".  What do you think that means?

He said this:  "There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false.  A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false."  What do you think?

Actors and theatre production students:  Read the script for "The Gift".  Do what you're told to do in the assignment.

Directors:  What is true on stage?  When we ask an actor to use their own experience when grappling with a difficult scene, are we asking the actor to make the scene true?  What experience of your own could you use to make a scene that feels "true"?

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