The Director
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Opened Feb 15, 2000
Closed Jul 1, 2000
Opened Feb 15, 2000
Closed Jul 1, 2000
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The Director follows the path of a once-famous Grotowski-styled theater director, now working as a janitor. A young, impressionable playwright coaxes him to direct her play and in return he casts a Svengali-like spell over her and the cast of young actors willing to embrace his unusual and experimental style. The play explores what happens when the bond of trust between actor and director is abused.
Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
(No intermission)
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"You don't want to work with me. I'm a controlling monster," says the lead character to the budding playwright in The Director, Nancy Hasty's compelling new play running at the ArcLight Theatre. The drama deftly explores the obsessive and passionate relationship between a director and his actors--a relationship fueled by the fact that the director Peter (John Shea) is a disciple of acting method guru Jerzy Grotowski, founder of the highly influential Objective Drama Theory, which states that the only part of a play that matters is the spiritual and ritualistic relationship between the actor and the audience.
Peter lives in a small room upstairs from a theater where he now works as a jan[...]