The Greeks had a way of constructing the character of a person on stage in a dramatic presentation: Ethical Habit of Action. You learn to understand a person based not on what they say, but rather on how they behave. Don’t believe what you’re told. Believe only what you see. It is the bundled experience of the form — the habit of action — that defines us… and not the brittle persona many believe is the true and ethical morality of the person.
I’m sure you’ve had to hear them out. In fact, one of them is probably standing right near you or might even be found sleeping in your bed. I’m talking about “Fatalistic What Iffers” and they live their lives through the harrowing, self-imposed, terror of the “What If” that they press upon you in every waking moment.
The false charges against Barack Obama from the Clinton campaign claiming plagiarism is laughable on the surface and ridiculous in the depths.
The bane of plagiarism, however, is a serious matter and it deserves more discovery and I will more formally address that topic in a future article.
Plagiarism — taking someone else’s ideas and claiming them as your own — is an issue to some in the theatre. I argue the distinction is meaningless because in a live performance the difference between stealing and inspiration is ever-changing.
Continue reading → The Invented Line Between Stealing and Inspiration
Blogging is the new Theatre.
We are now our own producing companies and we create — in real time — new tragedies, musicals and comedies every single day online.
Bertolt Brecht was a SuperGenius author, writer and director.
As a radical man of the German theater in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s his influence and style provide us great vision today.
Continue reading → Bertolt Brecht and the Meaning of White Light
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