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Showcase & case study: I don't know, if I will be able to complete 17 pages "scene-by-scene" commentary and the pages on all characters. Plus, the set and etc. And this time we do not do anything "virtual"... Well, there is a screen for the shadow theatre (images).
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3 Sisters, Mikado, 12th Night, Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dangerous Liaisons, Don Juan
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new = 2006: Godot
I have to finish the play I write in Russian; that's the next project. And maybe Hamlet2002...
To make htmlgear on French wisdom about love and sex?
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire
The real images comes only, when the show is on, when I lose interest to it. Go to Theatre UAF and see how it looks, when it's not in my head.
April 11, the tech weekend. Not much will be done in this directory from now on. My director's job is almost over. Write director's notes, tune the show... and move to another project.
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DiGaetani: As I recall that period in British theater, during those years all plays had to include a nude scene. Such scenes were absolutely de rigueur -- I guess just to tweak the nose of the censor, who no longer had any power. The nudity was also a novelty back then.Hampton: That's right. It was a curious time, though when you're in the middle of it you don't realize what's going on.
DiGaetani: But the connection between love and cruelty continued in several of your plays beyond that time period. Perhaps the cruelty is caused by the intense fear of the intimacy that love can create.
Hampton: Certainly. The cruelty is also a way of keeping people at arm's length. Rimbaud behaved that way because he rejected all forms of what he conceived to be sentimentality. Again he's at the opposite end from Verlaine who omnivorously accepted everything and everybody -I think he would have screwed rabbits if he could have caught them. For Rimbaud debauchery was pursued with Puritanical zeal, and he was in fact a kind of Puritan whereas Verlaine was totally bisexual, which was his kind of pantheism. These were the various extremes that the characters tended towards, which made it possible to conduct an interesting debate on the subject. Really, you don't know what the plays are about until you've written them. They tell you what they're about. I never really know what I'm writing a play about; I only know that I'm interested in something, and I don't know the reason why. I'm sort of at the mercy of my . . .
DiGaetani: Muse?
Hampton: Instinct, I was going to say -- a better word, I think. I trust my instinct too because my experience is that whenever I try to write on a particular thesis, the result is not interesting. There is an element -which you can call either mystery or poetry -- which is absolutely essential in the theater. Otherwise the play lacks resonance. It just sits there and tells you what it wants to tell you, as if you're watching the news on television. The best moments in the theater are those moments when you are irrationally moved. Art is always more complicated than the terms by which you can define it.
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