The Central Park Five
My “OperaWire” review of Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley’s “The Central Park Five”, produced by Long Beach Opera:
Category: Drama itself
Collaboration
I have always suspected that works of art are the result of greater collaboration than the proponents of auteurism would want us to believe. I love Billy Mernit’s phrase in Cut to the Chase about movies benefitting from ‘a spirit of collaboration that once yielded cathedrals’. Now, The Guardian reveals (Oct 23, 2016) that Christopher Marlowe’s name […]
The mask – and how it writes for you
In the chapter on Mask work in his acting book Impro, Keith Johnstone tells of how masks impart their information (physiological, psychological) to actors who wear them, so that no matter the personal characteristics of the wearer, the wearer conforms to the behaviour of the Mask. Says Johnstone: Another Mask was called Mr Parks. This one […]
Pivoting – a creative technique
A documentary film-maker recently observed to me that “the way you get out of a film is not always the way that got you in”. I think I knew what he meant. Back in 1996 I had wanted to write a dramatisation of the whole life of T.G.H. Strehlow. It was not until some years […]