An Icon Painter Starts Not With Jesus

In The Theatre, Every Form Once Born Is Mortal; Every Form Must Be Reconceived, And Its New Conception Will Bear The Marks Of All The Influences That Surround It.

Now What Is Earth, What Are You Rubbing In Directing?

It Takes A Long While For A Director To Cease Thinking In Terms Of The Result He Desires And Instead Concentrate On Discovering The Source Of Energy In The Actor From Which True Impulses Arise.

A Word Does Not Start As A Word – It Is An End Product Which Begins As An Impulse, Stimulated By Attitude And Behaviour Which Dictates The Need For Expression.

Theatres, Actors, Critics And Public Are Interlocked In A Machine That Creaks But Never Stops. There Is Always A New Season In Hand And We Are To Busy To Ask The Only Vital Question Which Measures The Whole Structure. Why Theatre At All? What For? Is It An Anachronism, A Superannuated Oddity? Surviving Like An Old Monument Or A Quaint Custom? Why Do We Applaud And What? Has The Stage A Real Place In Our Lives? What Function Can It Have? What Could It Serve? What Could It Explore? What Are Its Special Properties?