Something worth keeping in mind.
“The first rule of theater is that there are no rules—other than not to be dull. Practice always trumps theory onstage, and nearly anything, no matter how absurd it may seem, can be made to work if it’s charged with conviction.”
Terry Teachout in the WSJ, 6/16/10
I’m heading toward opening night of Troilus and Cressida. The above is good advice for me to remember. Left to my natural state, I could become very theoretical. The beauty of approaching an opening night is that the practical necessities of making an entertainment force me to cut right to the chase, and problem solutions start coming fast and furiously. It’s a very exciting time. It really feels like the most invention-filled part of the process.
This makes me feel like I’m inately more of an editor than an author. If I were an author, I’d do alot moremore work up front.
