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Great musicians know that the rooms where they play have personalities - bright or dull or warm or clear. Great actors say the same thing about the theaters where they work. And when Kevin Spacey explains why he just became artistic director of London's Old Vic theater - and why he wants to rescue the splendid old place from the ravages of time - he talks about its acoustic character. "There are some theaters where an actor's voice goes out into a void," he says. "You can't feel where it's going, and therefore can't control how the performance...
...Laurence Olivier called it the Old Vic's "sweet spot" - a place Spacey situates somewhere "downstage center," where an actor can most easily make that crucial connection with the audience. "What is unique about the Old Vic is that you know you've got them. You can feel it. And when it's silent, it's silent." Except, that is, when mobile phones start ringing, as happened once too often during a performance of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Old Vic in 1998. "It was at a particularly inappropriate, quiet moment," Spacey says. "I looked...
...Spacey first set foot in the Old Vic as a child growing up in California's San Fernando Valley, during one of the periodic trips to London his theater-loving parents took with their three children. "I was so young I don't remember specific productions as much as I remember the spectacle of it and the pageantry of it and how it was such an amazing and beautiful theater," he says. The experience helped turn Spacey into a self-described "theater rat," and one of his priorities at the Old Vic will be to encourage attendance among young people...
...remember how the Old Vic was such an amazing and beautiful theater — KEVIN SPACEY...
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