Difficult Plays
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Topic: Difficult Plays
Posted By: brct
Subject: Difficult Plays
Date Posted: 1/24/10 at 9:34am
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What plays do everyone consider to be the most difficult plays to direct. Not so much staging, but conceptualizing from a director's standpoint? I'd love to hear opinions from directors. THANKS!  ------------- Come Out and Play! |
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Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 1/24/10 at 3:33pm
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Anything by Genet or Ionesco.
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Posted By: Amos Hart
Date Posted: 1/26/10 at 4:13pm
| "Social Security" by Andrew Bergman. Funny play. I love it. And as a director I'd never touch it. It's almost a radio play, 97% talk. All interesting movement has to come from the director with NO help from the playwright. |
Posted By: bernster74
Date Posted: 1/29/10 at 4:32pm
| Noises Off, besides being technically difficult, has to be done at a break-neck speed and kept interesting for over two hours......it's wonderful whhen done right, but difficult to pull off. |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 1/30/10 at 9:12pm
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Sorry this is mainly about stagging & mise en sceneorgaphy.
When I directed Man of La Mancha I visualised the dungeon staircase, which was about 20 odd foot in length on an incline side on the to the audiance being flown in/out in a venue & disapearing above the pro arch. with no fly loft & a gable tin roof peak of about 15" above the stage, then having the actors enter & exit as though they were doing so above & outside the roof.
Yet it was the simplest in the end!
It was interesting to see the amount of punters after the show, walking around the venue wondering how it was done. When asked I replied 'We just remove the galvinised roof sheeting during the show & pop it back after the Finarle!' - & they actualy believed me?
There is a pic of the venue under 'Theatre Lovers Club' which may give some idea of it's limited staging;- http://splc.org.au/news.html - http://splc.org.au/news.html
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Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 2/02/10 at 1:22am
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I agree with tristanrobin, and I would add: anything by Tom Stoppard. ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |