Re: RAT Toastmaster

[AnnTaylor1231@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/15/01 8:16:59 PM Central Standard Time,
virtualdrama@juno.com writes:

But, what I actually see happening, throughout this country -- and extending
into Europe -- is that film/TV saturated actors and directors tend to have
such homogenized perormance/directing styles -- and such homogenized life
experiences -- that they turn scripts that are very different than one
another in intent into *the same performance piece". The characters of
Chekhov, Tristan Tzara, Bill T. Jones all come to look like the cast of
Friends -- hungover, or having a particularly verbal day in the coffee
shop.

Oh, dear.  This sounds serious.  I think maybe you need to get out more.  
Perhaps a little outside of your usual "comfort zone".  Just a suggestion.  
No, really.  I find that really good works beg to be realized, rather than
interpreted, so that they are performed in the manner in which they were
intended to be.  What that means is that overindulgence in stage directions,
etc., is not necessary.  Further, great works can withstand "interpretation"
by directors and actors.  We are all on the same team, after all.  By the
way, where do you see the role of the dramaturg in this evil quagmire? :)

Ann Taylor
rm 120 theatre