Word: actor-director
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EASY RIDER. Using townspeople playing themselves and drawing a topnotch performance from Jack Nicholson, Actor-Director Dennis Hopper has added a new dimension to the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer...
...POSSIBLE THEATRE by Sfuarf Vaughan. 255 pages. McGraw-Hill. $6.95. Able Actor-Director Vaughan left Broadway 15 years ago with egocentrifugal force, but this account of his subsequent travels and travails has the prose urgency of a milk train...
...French provinces with Maisons de la Culture, designed to bring theater and art to outlying cities and towns. While the idea was not without merit, many of the theatrical directors Malraux sent to the provinces proved so anti-Gaullist that he fired them. Even the revered actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault was sacked as director of Paris' Odeon for having turned it over to student dissidents for meetings during the demonstrations...
...September of 1967 when Samuel Samshak was playing the crony in the Boston MacBird, two theatrical friends approached him with the idea of starting an experimental theatre somewhere in the Boston area. Between the three of them, Samshak, the actor, Jerry Reagan, the actor-director, and Ron Beaton, the light technician, they had the necessary qualifications. So with what little money Samshak had in the bank, they rented a storefront in the cinder-block beauty of BRA's Castle Square and transformed it into a theatre. On October 5, 1967, the Atma Theatre (then known as the Atma Coffee-house...
Behind all this are the theories of French Actor-Director Antonin Artaud, who held that the modern theater ought to involve and provoke gut reactions from audiences. The result, however, is a drama that is shamelessly alive from the waist down and shamefully dead from the neck up. Eloquence of speech is abandoned for voodoo gibber. The play is reduced to a trampoline for directorial acrobatics. Condemned to extemporaneous self-expression, the actors display no sense that they have mastered their craft. The audience participation destroys illusion without enhancing reality...