Word: canosa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, The Harvard Crimson spoke with Hans Canosa, a Harvard undergraduate who directed more shows at Harvard this past semester than any single director has in the past four years combined...
...Hans Canosa: What fascinates me in his work is issues of--you know, Brustein always used to say excrementalism, that just means shit obviously--that fascinates me, the same way that Brecht in his early plays obsessed with images of shit and sex, and every sexual character was a pimp or a whore...the same thing with Strindberg where he's always talking about the dirt, rising out of the dirt...
...Canosa: Last semester, people were calling me an auteur-director, that's ridiculous, I'm so young, I don't know anything, it's so vast. I take every class I can, I have to suck up everything I can about theater...
...Canosa: I don't sit down with a cast, I hate table rehearsals, I never sit at a table, we never read the scripts, if anything we read it running around the room, I never do read-throughs. My actors always hear me harping on how America forgot the second part of Stanislavski, the physicality, the gesture, movement, the purely physical. I like discovery through the text, through physicality, through play...
...Canosa utilizes some particularly clever anachronisms--Jeans uses a cordless phone at one point when being called upon by Miss Julie's father--even though it is still approximately the 1800s...