Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Naked theatre

Theatre is naked. Actors wear the personae and costumes of characters. Yet the thing that they cannot hide is their own truth. The stage gives them an excuse and a necessity for revealing it. When actors do take their clothes off on stage, it seems curiously redundant.

2 comments:

Mark G. said...

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Doug Mackey said...

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