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I don't think that this bothers me that much I don't think it bothers anyone in the company.
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But right now we feel that by making the compromise and becoming purely a
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financial organization which we would have to be at this jointer
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of going out into the off Broadway area and that we
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would have to sacrifice and compromise our artistic principles and what we're trying to do and what we're trying to
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build because it because and because of the need for survival
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financially which we don't have this pressure is not upon us at the moment.
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Of course we don't intend to stay inside a church working for nothing for the rest of our lives celebrities or not
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for the next year that we will be able to to pay the actors and we're planning now another summer
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season at the church where the actors will get paid.
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That brings me to a quick question I would like to throw at all of you.
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Do you feel you've had the opportunity and the chance to assess your real value your real
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worth of working in situations such as you
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do where there is no paid admission and where if you had to compete
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with all of the Broadway admission prices for a
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theater seat do you think you would come off as you have. Do you think you would survive do
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you think you would be able to compete with this existing theater climate
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bill.
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Gee I think let me say that
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there are as many different personal reasons for working in. Fields
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such as this as there are people probably.
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I've have known. Many writers many painters many
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musicians people in the arts over the years
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and I find that there are a very large number of them who are far more
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concerned with developing their art than they are with.
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The financial problems of living we live in a time Dick when
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it is not difficult to come by enough money to live on it. We
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have such a tightening as much of the Washington of experts and we
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have 10 million starving individuals on trial that I was and I'm not I'm not referring to the
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people in Appalachia are the people in Harlem or any of the other underprivileged areas where there
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are very severe problems but. For most of us who did not grow
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up in that kind of an environment it is not really terribly difficult to
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make a living. I'm not saying that everybody is going to go out and make twenty five thousand or
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forty thousand a year or 50000 or any specific amount but the amount of
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money that is needed in order to live reasonably comfortably is not all that
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difficult to obtain for most people. I have known so many
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artists who have worked on their own supporting themselves not
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through grants not through the donations not through patronage
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of any kind but they work six months a year and then they write or paint or
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compose six months a year. I feel that there
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are a number of people in that category connected with Classic Stage Company they are
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concerned more with the development of their art at those moment than they are with.
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Their development as members of the acquisitive middle class. Of course
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my question.
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More immediately concerned what you thought of your possibilities of existence
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in terms of the competition of the theatrical enterprises that are
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going on off Broadway where you have to contend yourself with finances where it's a
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realistic aspect of the theatrical existence not your social existence. But
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I mean you must pay press. You must pay for a theatre you must pay a rental you must charge an
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admission fee.
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And this was really my question based on the assessment of what you had seen
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the Classic Stage Company move from to its present moment.
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What is your at this point. What is your assessment of it. Do you feel that
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it already exists.
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I think that we are definitely moving toward a point when we can subsist financially
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on our own and I'm still ugly. And when I say subsist financially I mean that we
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will be able to pay their people in the company. We will be able to
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eventually operate a theater where we pay rent on the theater
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and so forth.
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This takes time and we're trying to build up an interest in the public in New York in this
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kind of theater and specifically in us. While we build if we were now
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contending with the financial problems of paying a price stagehands
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rent on a theater we that would be our primary function would be trying to raise money for
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that and we would have to sacrifice the artistic principles that we're trying to fight for right now.
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Get off Broadway and more recently off Broadway
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has been considered by a large majority to
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be the lifeblood of the vitalism theater
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in this country.
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Where experimental ideas have been tried in some
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successful some not so successful among all of
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these theaters.
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There are a number of viewpoints regarding actors and
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the need for training that actors should have and they
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range from the viewpoint that actors need no training at all
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or actors need a modicum of training or
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actors should have the Zen of training. Now
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you mentioned earlier that you would require to be a bachelor of arts degree.
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I take it in theatre. Why do you feel that.
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First of all the history of theatre is important for all first of all in the kind of
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place it would do and I don't want to announce to the company that our next selection is hard to find have them all look at
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me who wrote that. I think that they have to have a feeling
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and a knowledge of the kind of work that we're going to be doing right from the start and know
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that this is what they want to do most of the people have come to us because this is the kind of theater that they have
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read about it they have. To some extent performed in this area in college
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and they know that this is the kind of thing that they want to do as opposed to the barefoot in the
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park on Broadway. And I'm not condemning that kind of drama or musical comedy
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or any of the other forms are just that this is an area of theater that we have all chosen and
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made a decision ourselves of what we want to do. And we only know this that this
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is what we want to do because we know about it something that comes off the top of our head.
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What other requisites would you require from an actor who wanted to belong to the Classic
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Stage one of them.
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Well at the moment he must not belong to equity that you guys have.
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Because of the problems we would have and we do.
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Unfortunately there is a showcase and workshop code in equity which
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covers most of the off off Broadway ventures where we've been really does not cover
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us. You could argue it was a build up mainly to protect the actors who are
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working on new and experimental plays. Where as where if the
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production was successful the playwright or the director would benefit from it here
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that the actors in our company the ones who are benefiting from it most since the playwrights who
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already established what other training attributes personal attributes would you require of an
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actor I.
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You may not you may know what you're talking about if you can't use an Equity actor. Even if you wanted to. That's
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right but what do you require of your actors other than a bachelor.
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While I would like to see that they have done in the past in a resume that they have
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done some work in the area. Classic theater in the kinds of plays it were
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doing. I mean whether it was in university or regional theater or
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summer theater doesn't make much difference to me but they've had some background experience in this area
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and this way they will know that this is what they want to do.
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You said earlier that there is no place where an actor can receive training.
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I'm not home while training is another thing now.
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They may have received a great deal of training in college or drama school or
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company somewhere else but it does not coincide with what I'm looking for.
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Therefore the kind of a retraining period into the concepts and
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techniques that we use at the Classic Stage Company and if we can say that there
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is that kind of concept in technique which can be definitely defined. I think that we
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ourselves where each production and put into each production with the kind of training and direction that
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is needed for that particular play lands as an actor or an
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assistant director with the governor.
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And you're still involved in your education.
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Have you been able to determine what
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it is that you would need to complete. To some
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degree your professional capacity in terms of your
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craft or acting.
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Well. I find that a lot a lot of the training I've
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received at college works theoretically but is not very useful at all.
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Practically you know producing a play. In other words you can write
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all sorts of philosophies down on paper but when you try to put them on the stage and join
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audience this one idea or another idea just doesn't work. And
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I feel the greatest thing that I can do as an actor to complete my
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proficiency is to be in front of an audience first of all
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and develop a feeling for using an audience
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in the best way to show them what I'm trying to do.
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Well when you say theoretical ecology full of theory and no
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practice how does this spill over into what you're trying to do in other words
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what. Is the theory that you can't put into practice on the
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stage that you're receiving in college.
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Well largely where you for exist example in our
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acting class where St. Stanislaus and
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his principles work very well in an acting class. But
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when you get on the stage you know they don't work very well in the
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aspect that he relies on spectacle and using your
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body to show an audience by doing things. And I believe that that him
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often delves into being phony on the stage and I have a suspicion that the
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audience can detect that to a certain degree. They may not be
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able to say oh I didn't see that but I think they can feel it and I think the
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greatest duty of the actor is to be sincere on the stage.
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Do you feel that you can.
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You can't be some serious utilizing Stanislavski technique regarding
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the doing rather than the thinking of an action.
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I well that's a tricky question.
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Would you would you restate that.
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Well I gathered from what you said about Stanislavski that there was
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some one aspect of Stanislavski that you were being taught
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was to actually do the action
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rather than talk about or think the action and principally with your
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body.
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And I wondered whether And you said that seemed to be insincere and I
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wondered whether you were getting the correct Stanislavski training or whether
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I'm getting a mis interpretation from you or on what
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point you're trying to make so I ask you do why do you feel that's insincere.
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I feel it in here because I think that I have
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in fact heard in beauty that man is a person that you have to
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realize that emotions motivate the action and not the action motivate the emotions.
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This is no argument isn't it. I mean yes it is. It was a spring
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from the lying theory. If you see a bear you.
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You are pregnant and you run.
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Or a bear that's coming at you you you you are frighten and then run but the other theory is that you
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see the bear you run and then become frightened.
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I love the feeling that you're frightened in round one oversimplification but.
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This is an interesting viewpoint from a young actor Lance and why I'm
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taking it up is because I see the dilemma that I talk about every week
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connected with American theater and the training of actors for it. There is so
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much confusion and it seems that it's unnecessary and
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you seem to be confused about. I say you seem to be about
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Stanislavski because I think most people agree that Stanislavski himself did nothing
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really more than to be the first one to codified.
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In print what an actor does automatically. And I think
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possibly Stanislavski has been misinterpreted by American teachers.
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And I I just venture that as an addict I think what what's
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wrong with it has been factual. At any rate in the American
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training of actors is that they don't most of the drama schools are not connected with come with
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with working companies. The actors are given a tremendous amount of
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theory of thought. Move body movements start to some degree
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fencing or speech. But they have no place to put it into
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direct practice in front of an audience would be able to to experiment with it to feel the
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effects of what all of this training is being aimed at.
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What is your viewpoint and hope out of some of the new organizations that have formed such as
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The New York University professional training school Yale
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University is active drum and re whole reorganization
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I should say under Robert Bruce Dean. Do you see these as
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the organizations implementing what would be or what
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is the ideal for theatre training in this country.
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Yes and no I think on paper Ideally this is what we've been looking for and I think that Bruce
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has been much more successful to this date than NYU has and I know more about NYU having
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been there but not connected with the professional school. It was a teaching fellow in the
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educational theater department. The climate that's
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created at NYU professional theater school is one of
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complete idealism. They are given the kind of
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confidence because they were accepted as students there that they were the best possible
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students that could ever be accepted at a school like this. They are the training
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is removed into if you are studying acting you major in acting you never touch a hammer. You never
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touch a lighting. You never touch a broom you never go near a needle and thread
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and you. Driven into an area of
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just acting or just seen design there is no interlocking of interest. I
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think that a young person has to find his where he belongs in theater and he can only do this by
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being exposed a great deal to all of the elements of production
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because theater is not just acting it's not just scene design is too much in this country of separating
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all of the elements. Theatre is a combined effort of the of the box
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office staff of the backstage staff of the actors of the director of the costume designers.
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It's a unit that should produce the play for the production not the individuals.
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When I think that many of these schools specializing themselves too much to the point where the
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young actors are left that after four years. They get out of the
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school and they think you know because I went through four years at NYU professional school and I now got an A in all my
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courses that I am now the greatest actor that ever came down the pike and then where do you go for work
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unless they place you were just out on the town like everyone else I'm going to be hanging on the
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doors. Yes and you're left nowhere. Now if you go to a
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company and say yes but we also need an assistant stage manager when I have no experience in stage
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managing. Well I'm sorry I will take the actor who's not quite as good because he has at least that experience
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and he can be of more use to us.
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Now for the past few minutes we've been talking about what is primarily an internal matter.
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In terms of actors and training but let's focus this to
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the guy who pays his 350 550
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wherever your going goes as far as 10 15 under the table I guess it goes up to 20 dollars
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to go see a production. What is this to him or he
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to you that anyone should weep for any of this. In other words what I'm asking
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is what what does the man who goes to the
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who goes to the theater. What is he expected to feel
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and what is he expected to do. He doesn't concern himself with these problems. I mean these are
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problems that actors and ultimately indirectly society is faced with if
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we want a viable art if we want some inspirational art
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performing arts that is and it could be a great
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force in the life experience of individuals who go to the
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theater rather than just a palliative for the moment of three hours.
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What is he to do and how is he to react. For example when it comes to see the cavern is his
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is he going to say to himself Well this company the Classic
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Stage Company is here trying to get its foot on the ground trying
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to perpetuate an idea and trying to present something that's meaningful and worthwhile.
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What do you think the average person thinks about when he goes to the theater.
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Well this is difficult to say especially in New York City where you have so many people go to
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the. Very many people there are that many reasons for their going to the theater. The
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person who pays $20 out of the table to get seats to Hello Dolly
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is not I don't think is the kind of person who is going to give
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out a dollar to a Man and Superman I really don't but I bring it to another aspect of money
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lately.
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Has been great interest and concern about business and the arts
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and government in the arts and I think Bill SNOW You
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mentioned earlier subsidies and grants in such a way as to give me the impression that
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you would not be interested in grants or subsidies from foundations or the
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government or would you.
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However did I manage to mislead you that far. Well.
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I had the impression that you said the Classic Stage Company was operating without the
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benefit of grants and. Well let me ask you the question now all of you. Do
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you approve generally of subsidies grants
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donated to companies for their perpetuation.
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Well I don't well I don't it's not a question of approving or disapproving of grants.
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Unfortunately I'm in the financial straits of the theatre it's the only way to exist on a large scale
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by having grants.
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This is true.
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JP age truly considers true of almost all the
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major Repertory Theatre.
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Well there's now something wrong with the ratio of interest and
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performance that I've put on I what I'm getting at. Should it be a buyer and sellers
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market. Why should it have to be supported.
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Oh I think we have a complex enough economy to have all sorts
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of experiences and data.
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I've read he has no right supports Broadway Broadway so what itself.
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Broadway supports itself and is always all bankrupt every week as well as certain cases.
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Let me say that as a result of the fact that it has to support itself there are many
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things which can be artistically valuable which you cannot
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offer the public for the simple reason that it must support itself it must always aim at
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the bankroll and this causes.
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A great restriction on the kinds of things that can be done on Broadway that is one of the
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major reasons for all of the experimental activity off-Broadway
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off off Broadway today. Broadway cannot do that kind of experimenting.
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It's not really much a cab and was not produced on Broadway because of the type of play that it is and it would not
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be at this moment the the time is not right for that
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kind of a play and this is why they have it did not hold back to a Broadway production in and gave it to an off
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off Broadway group who would present an experimental production of it.
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Not that I'm shying trying to chase the Classic Stage Company out of town but what
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prompts this question is there's a great deal of interest and indeed a
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favorable climate in outside of the New York area and
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rebirth or I should say a rebirth of regional theatre. Why would you
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stay here in Manhattan in this crowded city where all of the attempts are made
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and an easy question to answer.
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First of all let's to take Harvard for example. There is only
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one professional theater and Hartford once the Hartford Stage Company.
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If they produce the worst drama in the world of anyone in Hartford was interested in live theater that would be the
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only place nearby that they could go to see it. Doesn't really matter what
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the caliber of the work is. The theater can exist in outside of New York with it.
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There is no competition between companies.
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What about Michigan. Minneapolis Texas.
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All of these regional outposts where
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they are would be appreciated for what it is.
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Well I would say that it does not interest us so much to leave New York
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because we feel that there is a greater amount of interest in New York for the
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kind of food we want to do. At present the only company in New
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York and to some extent Lincoln Center because they don't operate on a repertory bases
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is the only place where people can see this kind of theater. You can trace the theatrical and
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the historical elements of theater can see a play like the cherry orchard
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done in a good production.
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Do you think is a good repertory company.
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You're putting me on the spot. Well the theater is on the spot and
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that's why we're talking about it.
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However I will say this I disagree with their policy of
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bringing people in for production die. I'm one of those who agrees firmly in a
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permanent company which makes no alterations when they choose a new play. If they cannot
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do it with the people who are already in the company they should not do that play.
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And yet you do the same thing and without comparison it will be OK.
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Still building a company and I try to every time I get a new actor I'm trying to see if I can work him into everything else
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and new actor came in last week. He is now taking over for roles.
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Are you aiming for a repertory company again as we are already running in repertory with Man and Superman in the
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cavern and 903 open with part 2 for all three shows will be running simultaneously.
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Well your next production after the cabin will be hard to see and how long do you run these
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players. What's the running.
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Well we'll go in the experimental bases when we did Hamlet we did six performances over two
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weekends and we did man in Superman originally we did nine performances over two weeks.
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The cavern was scheduled for nine over four weeks with insertions of two performances
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of Man and Superman in the middle. We found out that the interest is still there for
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Man and Superman and every time we stop performing it we get hoards of calls of people who
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still want to see it because they heard about it or they're anxious to see the play in its entirety.
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So at present we've been performing each show for nine performances.
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We schedule it for nine to see how well it will do if the reaction
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is good. We continue it as we have done with Man and Superman.
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Well I think at this point I'd like to make a little announcement we've been talking about Shakespeare a
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great deal and I for the benefit of our listeners and all of you here I hope you will
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tune in on your dial during the birth week of Shakespeare which will
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start here at WNYC April 21st through the twenty seventh that which time
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will have the leading personalities figures
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drama schools university departments etc all.
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Talking about or acting scenes from Shakespeare throughout the whole week and perhaps we'll get
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an even larger viewpoint in the meantime I want to thank you Christopher Martin the artistic director of
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Classic Stage Company Bill snow the general manager and Lance brilliant team the assistant
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director an actor with the company for joining us on seminars and theater
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and giving us an idea of the growing pains of. A company
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devoted to idealism and art in the theater.
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This was seminars in theater. A recorded series of discussions with leading
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members of the theatrical profession join us again for our next program when
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host Richard Pyatt will lead another conversation about life in the theater
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seminars in theatre is produced by radio station WNYC in New York
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City and is distributed by the national educational radio network.
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