Small Seasons of Big Ideas | New Directions: New Theatre & Late Shows: The Old Fitzroy Hotel
- August 13th, 2010
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Beyond Fringe and short play festivals, there are precious little opportunities for directors to practice their craft on a regular basis. Actors can learn new audition pieces, writers can set themselves exercises, but a director’s work only comes into effect when in a room with actors… and sometimes without an end point, without the pressure of an audience to view the work, director’s can be stuck in endless cycles of workshopping… there is something about the promise of an audience that sharpens a directors focus.
It is this reason which I applaud short seasons of full length plays… Read more