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A. Thomas Cavano's Points of Theatrical Departure
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Theatre Arts
Things that make Theatre:
voices tuned to make us believe,
swords, masks and merriment,
the light and sound and notes falling just so,
the story curving in to pierce the gut,
juggling, joking, paint and make up,
humanity and more.
What it takes to make a story come alive.
When all this is mastered it is the Art.
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Magic Theatre
Theatre is making the invisible visible.
The inaudible sound of a beating heart can come
from a drum
a theme is sculpted from the spaces between the places.
Sometimes the drum itself is sculpted from the air and the net that catches the lion is woven only of the actors' beliefs.
Sometimes Moses' serpent becomes a staff. It's all in how you dream it.
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Trust the Text
The DNA of a performance is the text.
For the most part, theatrical text is what is spoken between characters. It is a celebration of the profound power of what is meant, what is said and what is not said.
As "In the Beginning there was the Word," so the performance is at core its spoken words. In the old days playwrights were called poets. The words were everything.
When an action or design element increases the vitality of a play, it is because it is true to its relationship to the text.
Anything that is an obstacle to the text will function as a disease to the play.
In bringing a play alive, the smallest details of the text can be significant. The most familiar, most-taken-for-granted little phrases echo the powers at force in the play.
So often we directors and actors work hard to "make something" of a play when it was already something. We just couldn't find it. Its power was hiding from us in the commonplace details that break the play open into vibrancy. The text holds the connections. Trust the text.
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