Comments on: Creating Dramatic Tension

By: How Regional Theatres Can Facilitate Deaf Theatre Audiences | United Stage

How Regional Theatres Can Facilitate Deaf Theatre Audiences | United Stage — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:48:06 +0000

[...] or not — and voice — or not. The richness of a Deaf actor on stage is worth the added conflict and catharsis the disability brings to the in situ life of the overall [...]

By: Trilling, Albee and Pinter: On Marriage as a Competition | United Stage

Trilling, Albee and Pinter: On Marriage as a Competition | United Stage — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:40:37 +0000

[...] We were not used to seeing a married couple fight in mixed company. The play was unsettling, audacious, and [...]

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:25:44 +0000

That's precisely it, Gordon! People attend live theatre for the surprise of the performance. You can never recreate a live event -- it will always be different. Each time a performer is making the magic of the moment happen that will never happen the same way again. Here's a scene from a play about Helen Keller. The actress playing Helen falls off the stage! The scene continues. Magical, dangerous important, tense, wholly appropriate and revelatory in the shared recovery of the actors and audience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJtEzAW9WSw

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:34:32 +0000

Sometimes when I am in the audience of a play I can’t help but think how easily something could just go wrong. In high school, there was a performance of “Our Town” where one of the characters came down the stairs and delivered the line of dialogue from a scene that was about two scenes later and nobody did a double take or anything – they just pressed on from there. The loss came to the audience, of course, who lost out on those scenes that were basically skipped.