In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.
Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.