The Work Of A Director Can Be

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 Busy To Ask The Only Vital Question Which Measures The Whole Structure. Why Theatre At All? What For? Is It An Anachronism, A Superannuated Oddity? Surviving Like An Old Monument Or A Quaint Custom? Why Do We Applaud And What? Has The Stage A Real Place In Our Lives? What Function Can It Have? What Could It Serve? What Could It Explore? What Are Its Special Properties?

Reality' Is A Word With Many Meanings.

Drama Is Exposure; It Is Confrontation; It Is Contradiction And It Leads To Analysis, Construction, Recognition And Eventually To An Awakening Of Understanding.

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 Possession Of Him; Through Him, It Will Reach Us.