Final Exam Study Guide Flashcards
“The director is the true artist of the theatre”
Gordon Craig said…
“Theatre can not die before its last dream is dreamt”
Declan Donnellan said…
“Theatre does not change the world it changes one person, one evening. One person who arrived feeling weak or disheartened or who is ignorant, and you give them strength…”
Ariane Mnouchkine said…
“What we attempt to create in our theatre is a living culture, a rebuilding of the fragments into an admittedly utopian integrity of human existence. We do this for ourselves…”
Stacy Klein said…
“Theatre only has a meaning if it follows us to transcend our stereotyped vision, our conventional feelings and customs, our standards of judgement- not just for the sake of doing so…”
Jerzy Grotowski said…
“If you just let a play speak, it may not make a sound. If what you want is a play to be heard, you must conjure sound from it…”
Peter Brook said…
“I do not want to see the mise en scene onstage, those kinds of ideas that make themselves important. I’m not interested in the director’s art….”
Peter Stein said…
“What’s so liberating about opera is nobody can do it alone. The soprano is dependent on the oboe player, who is dependent on the person who’s finger is on the switch…”
Peter Sellars said…
“For us, man portrayed on the stage is significant as a social function. It is not his relationship to himself, nor his relationship to God, but his relationship to society which is central…”
Erwin Piscator said…
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it…”
Bertolt Brecht said…
“This Italian director working in Germany believes in incorporating improvisation to the theatre performances for vitality, since what is being produced is dead theatre…
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Roberto Ciulli said…
“What is the particular trait of a director? A personal need which makes him choose a role of power: the ability to make decisions…”
Eugenio Barba said..
“The director has to be patient and human, has to understand, help, clarify…to make things harmonious, or often let contradictions be discovered between him and actors among the actors themselves…”
Giorgio Strehler said…
“The most important thing a director can do for an actor is to awaken the actor’s intuition and assure the intuition that is going to be witnessed and used…”
William Ball said…
“Work with what you have right now. Work with the people around you right now. Work with the architecture you see around you right now. Do not wait for the appropriate stress-free environment in which to generate expression…”
Anne Bogart said…
“There are no rules in filming. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.”
Frank Capra said…
“Style is self-plagiarism.”
Alfred Hitchcock said…
