I've Always Worked A Bit Like A

I've Always Worked A Bit Like A Cook In A Big Restaurant, Where You've Got Lots And Lots Of Things Laid Out And You Go And Look Into One Cauldron And You Look Into The Other And You See What's Coming To The Boil.

Preparing A Character Is The Opposite Of Building-it Is A Demolishing, Removing Brick By Brick Everything In The Actor's Muscles, Ideas And Inhibitions That Stands Between Him And The Part, Until One Day, With A Great Rush Of Air, The Character Invades His Every Pore.

I Am Ready To Disclaim My Opinion, Even Of Yesterday, Even Of 10 Minutes Ago, Because All Opinions Are Relative. One Lives In A Field Of Influences, One Is Influenced By Everyone One Meets, Everything Is An Exchange Of Influences, All Opinions Are Derivative. Once You Deal A New Deck Of Cards, You've Got A New Deck Of Cards.

Drama Is Exposure; It Is Confrontation; It Is Contradiction And It Leads To Analysis, Construction, Recognition And Eventually To An Awakening Of Understanding.

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?