Occupation: Theatre Director Birth: March 21, 1925
Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a momen….
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts ….
The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural la….
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of und….
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take ….
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How..
I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, ….
You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost..
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In ….
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 i….
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded..
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy ….
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitio….
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?.
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage..
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now..
A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen..
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful..
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 bus….
I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and….
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that….