What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.