my notebook

my notes : anatoly

http://direct.vtheatre.net/notes.html

2007 : handouts as files

 PB (Peter Brook) : I think you can’t lose this, because a craft has no end. A craft is a ladder. There always has to be another level to everything. Today people are so scared of any scale of values. Here’s an example: Take the word ‘icon’. This was once a word of great meaning. Today a pretty girl, neither prettier nor better than a hundred thousand others, is suddenly elected by the press to be an icon. You see a word that once had a great fine subtle meaning has now been degraded. And that is a sign of our time. This shows a ladder in the sense of going downwards. But a ladder also means that going upwards is equally possible. So, if ones sees that there is a ladder hidden in the word ‘icon’, one can begin to wonder what really is an icon? Then you realise the coarse has hidden within it something finer. This is the great tradition of all crafts, everything fine can become finer and finer. This is what led to the guilds. In a guild, you start as an apprentice. The first apprentice deals with gross matter. He or she goes beyond that because there is a master calling them to investigate their tools. As they sharpen them and develop their skills they recognise that the next level is just a shell hiding something that is finer still. And in that way there isn’t an end to the process.

http://filmplus.org/d/theatre.html -- Total Directing (new)

"College Theatre" -- what it's for?

 * "director" pages in acting directories -- Acting One, Biomechanics, Method

Notes in Theatre Theory -- http://filmplus.org/thr/0.html