Word: canosa
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...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: No, you're not wrong, but I went back to a transliteration of Strindberg that demonstrated that Strindberg really did use words like fuck and shit, because he was an excremental poet, but it wasn't well-received in the theater...
...Canosa: I don't think there should be any limits or rules; on the other hand, what will be dramatically alive on stage? I think nudity on stage is often very boring, sex on stage is often very boring, because it's not that interesting to see two faces smushed, but it is to see two faces coming towards each other, and the tension, and they can't kiss...