http://www.weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/ A playwright's blog: dedicated to all things play building. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:53:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/comment-page-1/#comment-1849 weebelly.com » Brainpeople Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:50:54 +0000 http://weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/#comment-1849 [...] Overmyer and Len Jenkin and the Wooster Group and Megan Terry and reading Brecht and Artaud and Ionesco, in short, dealing with playwrights who are challenging form and structure and authorial [...] [...] Overmyer and Len Jenkin and the Wooster Group and Megan Terry and reading Brecht and Artaud and Ionesco, in short, dealing with playwrights who are challenging form and structure and authorial [...]

]]> http://www.weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/comment-page-1/#comment-1738 weebelly.com » Playwright who resonantes with me right now at this moment as we speak currently this second…and why Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:17:19 +0000 http://weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/#comment-1738 [...] Hayes, Thomas. Weebelly.com: A playwright’s blog: dedicated to all things play building. November (2009): 11/17/2009. http://www.weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/ [...] [...] Hayes, Thomas. Weebelly.com: A playwright’s blog: dedicated to all things play building. November (2009): 11/17/2009. http://www.weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/ [...]

]]> http://www.weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/comment-page-1/#comment-1710 weebelly.com » The Heidi Chronicles Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:09:47 +0000 http://weebelly.com/17/discovering-theatre-a-spring-board-discussion/#comment-1710 [...] “Why could I not accept theatrical reality? Why did its truth appear false to me? And why did the false seem to want to parade as true, substitute for truth?…[The actor’s] material presence destroyed the fiction. It was as though there were present two levels of reality, the concrete reality, impoverished, empty, limited, of these banal living men, moving and speaking upon the stage, and the reality of the imagination. And these two realities faced each other, unmasked, irreconcilable: two antagonistic universes which could not succeed in unifying and blending.” (Ionesco and Pronko 4) [...] [...] “Why could I not accept theatrical reality? Why did its truth appear false to me? And why did the false seem to want to parade as true, substitute for truth?…[The actor’s] material presence destroyed the fiction. It was as though there were present two levels of reality, the concrete reality, impoverished, empty, limited, of these banal living men, moving and speaking upon the stage, and the reality of the imagination. And these two realities faced each other, unmasked, irreconcilable: two antagonistic universes which could not succeed in unifying and blending.” (Ionesco and Pronko 4) [...]

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